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The National Herald - January 27-February 2, 2018

Jerry Dimitriou Exposes Archbishop Demetrios

By Theodore Kalmoukos

NEW YORK – Mr. Jerry Dimitriou, former Executive Director of Administration of the Greek Orthodox Archdiocese for the past 17 years who resigned five months ago in a lengthy and detailed letter exposes information about His Eminence Archbishop Demetrios alleging that he knew everything about the financial situation of the Archdiocese.

Mr. Dimitriou asked the Archbishop “Were you not the Archbishop of America for the past 17 years?  | Did we not work together with Michael Jaharis and Manny Demos and many, many others to first solve the financial debacle that former Archbishop Spyridon plunged the church into? Did we not work together on the inherited bank debt of over $6 million and a fiscal deficit in 1999 of close to $3 million when you took over as Archbishop? Did we not retire ALL that initial debt and fix the deficit together?

“Did we not work together to settle multi-million dollar lawsuits against those clergy who had abused children and women that they were sworn to serve under Christ? Did we not work together to pay down over $17 million in legal bills and settlements to take care of the burden they made for our Archdiocese? Did we not work together, with many dedicated lawyers and professionals, to create new misconduct policies and ensure their enforcement to protect both the faithful and clergy from these same types of situations?”

The letter dated January 24, 2018 with cc to His All Holiness Patriarch Bartholomew and members of the Holy Eparchial Synod is the following:

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[ The National Herald - www.thenationalherald.com/188562/jerry-dimitriou-uncovers-
  archbishop-demetrios/ - January 25, 2018 ]