Will a Temporary Injunction be Filed Against GOA?

Authentic Transparency and Accountability
May 17, 2019

Earlier this week, Mr. Greg Pappas - a former member of the Archdiocesan Council - asked an important question. In his opinion article about the new Archbishop, Pappas made the argument about how the Greek Church in America needs to stop blaming our former leader for the issues that plagued are the GOA in the past in order to move forward. However, Pappas also stated that we can ignore the reality of our situation by asking, "What about the federal and New York state attorney general investigations of the misuse of funds?"

As we all know, the Greek Orthodox Archdiocese of America is a 501(c)3 non-profit corporation in the United States with a EIN #13-1632516 that is was allegedly under investigation for the misuse of funds by the Federal government and the New York State Attorney General.

These investigations are not the result of the actions of one person, but rather, by everyone who was in the inner circle (i.e. the Executive Committee of the Archdiocesan Council and Fr. Alex Karloutsos). What is the point of changing the "figure-head" of the Archdiocese when the same people are going to remain in the inner circle? As long as Fr. Alex Karloutsos and the members of Executive Committee of the Archdiocesan Council are in a leadership position, the problems will continue to persist. Fr. Alex is supposedly going to be able to get millions of dollars all of a sudden to build St. Nicholas and replenish our ministries. How? He has been unsuccessful for the past 5 years because he was too busy ensuring that their were banquets in his honor and meeting with politicians! Apparently, Fr. Alex sets a example of what it means to be THE "priest of priests."

Even Archon John Catsimatides is smart enough to know that to fix this problem, Fr. Alex Karloutsos needs to retire. Catsimatides was quoted saying that the big donors will not give to support the St. Nicholas Shrine "if the Archdiocese is in charge."

However, beyond the need to see more retirements, there are rumblings that some members of the Archdiocesan Council are very upset with the Ecumenical Patriarchate for not properly adhering to the Regulations of the Greek Orthodox Archdiocese when selecting the new Archbishop of America.

In a new legal battle that may be happening in the near future, there is a group of laymen who will be allegedly filing a temporary injunction against the Greek Orthodox Archdiocese to question if U.S. law was violated, in relation to the operation of non-profit organizations - with members who pay a subscription - when a foreign corporation outside the United States (i.e. the Ecumenical Patriarchate) disregarded the bylaws and regulations of the GOA when "selecting" the new leader/President of a non-profit organization within the United States.

The group recognizes the separation of Church and State in the USA, but will be making an argument that because the "members" of the non-profit/Church are citizens of the United States who pay a "subscription" or "membership fee" to participant in the non-profit organization/Church, the injunction will ask the Court to determine if a foreign legal entity can impose on a non-profit organization their new President without needing to follow the approved bylaws/regulations of the non-profit organization. We know the Patriarchate does not need to adhere to the recommendation of the United States, but that does not mean they can blatantly disregard the bylaws of the organization.

A new argument can be made that the laymen do not need to follow the regulations set forth by the G. O. Archdiocese because the new precedent set by the Ecumenical Patriarchate.

We will share any further developments as they become available.

2 comments:

Anonymous May 17, 2019 at 3:46 PM

Feeble attempts to invoke these legal technicalities seem like a good example of "too little too late." | The truth is that the Archdiocese had it's back deliberately broken in 1996, when Bartholomew imposed his "divide-and-conquer" strategy on the church in America, fracturing the GOA into multiple and disconnected units (Metropolises), each one responsible to him alone, commemorating him alone, and having no necessary connection to each other. This was to weaken them and insure that no GOA archbishop would ever again threaten (as Iakovos did) their hold on the goose that lays their golden eggs. It was then that the GOA ceased to function as a national church, and it was then that the real decline set in (aided and abetted, of course, by the Dirty Whore of Southampton). Sad Spyridon was sent here to institute Phase 2, but he was a total failure, which demonstrates that the patriarchate has no clue regarding the USA, has no real vision (other than a secular political one), exercises no spiritual leadership here, and only cares about how to drain its richest province of more and more cash (thanks in part to that completely stupid body of shills known as the archons, about whom P.T. Barnum would be proud).

You are also right in saying that, if Elpidophorus is going to do anything worthy of the history books, he will have to get rid of all the cancer, scum, maggots and parasites that have accumulated in New York and Brookline, beginning with Mentally-Impaired Methodios, the deviant members of his clique, and working down the list from there.

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