The Greek Orthodox Archdiocese of Canada is not a private business??

 

The Greek Orthodox Archdiocese of Canada is not a private business. It’s declared an NPO which means it has an obligation to disclose its financials to its members as a not-for-profit. What’s Archbishop Sotirios hiding that he won’t show the financial not even to his own “trusted” Archdiocesan Council? Despite what he might believe, Sotirios doesn’t own the church, it’s not his money, the people/members own the churches. Same reason why I don’t understand how he was able to unilaterally sell Archdiocese assets such as the 2 Ontario properties including Metamorphosis kids Camp secretly during the pandemic, even though the majority of the money for the camp came from Hellenic Heritage Foundation, and no they were not happy to hear through the gossip mill that Archbishop Sotirios sold the camp and did what exactly with their money? The money given from that organization was earmarked for the camp, not for him or his buddies at the Phanar (ecumenical patriarchate). If the Patriarch wants our money to support the patriarchate, he should start by cleaning out the sicko hierarchs in his Phanar and here in Canada, and if he needs help I will happily provide him with a comprehensive list of who and why. So yes, Archbishop Sotirios does have a responsibility to disclose the finances. This is not North Korea and he can stop acting like a dictator. And yet whoever is left in the churches after the mass exodus during the pandemic to the Russians still continue to give money to him, I have no idea why. When a child misbehaves you don’t give it cake, and that’s exactly what people in the church are doing, giving their money blindly to a church with no idea what exactly it does with it? Parish councils should do what Agia Triada did (which is a church owned by the Archdiocese too) just quit on masse and leave the keys at the Archdiocese for Sotirios. The reason Archbishop Sotirios is still Archbishop of Canada is because of the money people give the church and because he continues selling of the church assets quietly. Plain and simple. If there was no $1.8 million ever single year coming in, Patriarch Bartholomew would replace him. Yes, it’s that simple. And as for the blogger on this pages post, while it’s a huge sigh of relief to see that at least in America they now publicize their finances and that they’re putting in protocols for financially fix that place that almost went bankrupt under Archbishop Demetrios. It doesn’t negate the fact that Archbishop Elpidophoros’ biggest problem is communications. The fact that no one around him understood that he needed to issue a statement after the baptism but instead thought it was a good idea to instead have bleeding heart Democrat Fr. Chrysavggis write articles shows that they’re all stupider than the other. And the Archdiocese employee Fr. Chrysavggis most recent article yesterday against Mount Athos and monasticism is why Archbishop Elpidophoros will now more publicly see the monastery’s go against him just like the monasteries in Canada have gone against Sotirios along with the conservative branch of the church. Elpidophoros might want to find out from his hierarch buddies such as Metropolitan Kyrillos (better known as “Κύριλλος με τον κυριλάκκο του”) about what’s happening in Canada about the Greek Vicariate discussions the Russian church is having. The Russian church has not only welcomed the Greeks into their churches with open arms but they provide Greek services in their own churches with Greek speaking clergy and chanters. And while Sotirios was in Greece with his bishops the Russian church even flew in well known “Pappa Ephraim” (who used to be at St Anthony’s monastery in Arizona of the late Geronda Ephraim) to do mass confessions for Greeks in the Russian churches across Canada. Given how things are progressing, I’d say there will be an announcement by the Russians for a Greek Vicariate in Canada within the year. And given that the 2nd largest Ukrainian population in the world is Canada, nothing says a big FU to Patriarch Bartholomew like a Greek Vicariate in Canada