BISHOP IAKOVOS OF ZENOPOLIS HAS BEEN KICKED OUT OF QUEBEC BY ARCHBISHOP SOTIRIOS — FINALLY!

 

On Tuesday at 3 pm at Archangels Church in Quebec, Canada, Archbishop Sotirios held a mandatory meeting with all clergy across the province of Quebec, including the retired priests. Sotirios informed them that a couple of weeks ago, he sent Iakovos a letter informing him that he is permanently removed as Proistamenos of St. George Church in Montreal and Regional Vicar of Quebec and that his only option left is to move to Toronto in the Archdiocese under his direct supervision and wrote how incompetent he is. So now Iakovos’ only option is to move to Toronto and be babysat by the Archbishop or never return to Canada.

Return from where you ask? Well, Bishop Iakovos took off for Greece in January — yes, 3 MONTHS AGO — after the huge blow-up between him and the Greek Community of Montreal, and he still hasn’t returned. The blow-up with the Greek Community resulted in the board of directors resigning on mass. The verbal abuse, screaming, and threats from Bishop Iakovos were so severe that the Greek community in Montreal turned against him. The clergy across the province of Quebec already hate Iakovos for years of extreme verbal abuse, threatening them and their families and trying to control the priests severely.

Last month, Iakovos lied to Sotirios and said that he got hit by a bicycle and couldn’t fly back to Canada because he can’t walk. [Remember two summers ago after he stole $30K from his church Philoptochos and fled to Greece for 3 months and told Sotirios he got hit by a car in Greece and couldn’t fly back but was caught in photos climbing Mount Athos?] Well this time it was a bicycle, not sure if it was an adult bike or kids bike. Except this past weekend, two photos appeared on Iakovos Krochak’s Facebook account at the Patriarchate with no cane or anything, the Phanar confirmed to Sotirios that Iakovos was not only able-bodied and had nothing helping him walk but that he was jumping up the stairs with two feet at a time as kids do. And on the ec-patr.org webpage, Bishop Iakovos is listed as having a meeting with Patriarch Bartholomew this past Friday.

Iakovos informed Sotirios that he would go and meet with the Patriarch, and Sotirios told him that he didn’t think that’s a good idea and that he shouldn’t go. But in true Iakovos style, he went anyway.

In that record time short meeting, Bishop Iakovos thought it was smart to begin by shit-talking Archbishop Sotirios. Read that again. And then essentially begged the Patriarch to give him anything that looked like “a promotion” so he could leave Canada with his head held high. A promotion for a Bishop would be one of the following options: Exarch, Metropolitan, or Archbishop (and if born in Turkey, a Bishop would be eligible to run for Patriarch if the spot has been vacated). The Patriarch said no, and that was the end of that. Archbishop Sotirios was informed of the meeting by the Patriarch himself and that Iakovos shit-talked him. Sotirios told the Quebec clergy in his 1 hour rant that Iakovos shit-talked him to the Patriarch — showing that if you want to play those games, you will lose.

So what happens to Bishop Iakovos now? Well, he’s asked the gay mafia of our church (which he is a member of) to help him find a diocese anywhere in Europe to take him as an Assistant Bishop. He’s been trying to secure a spot in Greece but has had no luck so far — no idea why no one wants such a nice and humble guy?

Let’s hope this is the last we see of Bishop Iakovos and let’s break out the champagne and celebrate!