UPDATE 9/16/2023, 6 PM...(IN RESPONSE TO SOME COMMENTS) DO NOT DOUBT ME AND HELLENISCOPE’S SOURCES…
1) Yes, that’s right, if someone is “insulted” they can file a lawsuit… I have been writing about Apostolos’s trespasses for years. And I remind all of you that GOARCH and others, using the Education Director A. Koularmanis, filed a “defamation lawsuit” against me. When the court heard the case preliminarily, it denied all their requests!!! The case has been going on for over three years – until recently, a few months ago, it hit a wall.
What wall did it hit? It hit the wall of “discovery” – that is, they do not want to answer our demands to produce documents!! Can you guess why they refuse to do so? Catsimatides, the VP of the Archdiocesan Council, used his own personal lawyer, a Park Avenue lawyer (who is paid handsomely), to fight me!!! Do you realize what it means to fight “pro se” against a billionaire’s lawyer? They tried to silence Helleniscope, and so far they have failed!!
2) Since 2019 I called publicly twenty times Patriarch Bartholomew to demand from the Paris (France) Police the reports proving that Emmanuel(la) and Maximos had repeatedly invited Bulgarian gay escorts INTO the Metropolis Building… He plays deaf… BARTHOLOMEW HAS EVIDENCE AVAILABLE TO HIM AND REFUSES TO SEE IT… instead of punishing them, he promoted them… Why? For two reasons: First, because he himself is part of the same gay “gang of thieves” that have ravaged Orthodoxy. Second, because all of them are part of a globalist Cabal, and they promote homosexuality at all levels… Do you realize that, as we speak, Emmanuel(la) is second-in-command at the Patriarchate?
3) Some of you, very few, are hallucinating that Helleniscope does not have credibility. If we did not have credibility they would not fight us. They are afraid of the truth. They are afraid of Helleniscope…
I CHALLENGE APOSTOLOS AND BARTHOLOMEW AND ALL OF THEM to answer our well-founded allegations. They will not. They will “pretend” until they can’t anymore…
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Those who attend must pay $125 per person presumably to participate in the dinner to follow. Will anyone find the moral stature to call him ANAXIOS?
By Nick Stamatakis
We verified recently that those attending tomorrow’s enthronement of Bishop of Medeias Apostolos (Koufalakis) as the Metropolitan of New Jersey must have a numbered invitation, which will cost them $125 (presumably to pay for the dinner to follow). Otherwise, they will not be allowed to enter the Church of Saint John the Theologian at Tenafly!!
We asked members of the Church and priests with decades of experience and theological knowledge regarding Orthodoxy’s practices and canonical rules. Still, so far, we have received no suggestions of any similar precedent in the history of Orthodoxy!! We will undoubtedly continue our historical search but expect no justification for such an atrocious act…
This action of closing the doors to all those who do not have an “official” invitation is a blatant attempt to control the participants at the enthronement of Apostolos. It goes against the most symbolic part of the thousands-year-old Orthodox enthronement ritual, the faithful’s universal acceptance of the hierarchy by calling him AXIOS. Since Apostolos has already ascended to the hierarchy as “Bishop Apostolos of Medeias” (Pat. Bartholomew forced AB Demetrios to do it back in 2018), calling him AXIOS or ANAXIOS has only a symbolic significance. To remove him or postpone his ascent, the faithful should have called him ANAXIOS when he was becoming “Bishop of Medeias”.
Still, AB Elpidophoros and Apostolos himself have heard that in at least one – and possibly more – parishes of the Metropolis of NJ, members have expressed their total disapproval of Apostolos and have threatened to withdraw their financial support. This is the main reason for the numbered invitations!! Even so, we hope that at least one of the participants tomorrow will do the right thing and cry ANAXIOS!! Even to symbolically protest this very unworthy person of becoming Metropolitan!!
The level of arrogance – and decadence – of the hierarchs of the Patriarchate – and Apostolos himself – is beyond description. If you need details about his past, please enter his name in Helleniscope’s search button. If you have any relatives or friends in Astoria, please ask them. I will only note that within less than 20 days of him being caught in the (homosexual) act with a prominent member of the St.Demetrios parish (October 2011), the late strongman of Astoria Andriotis “shipped” him to San Fransisco!! In a few months, he was kicked out by Met. Gerasimos of San Fransico… To finally find solace in the “sisterhood” of Phanar, among the likes of Bartholomew and his cohort…
Apostolos has done several other trespasses – not simply moral but also financial both here and in Greece. As far as we know, he never showed the Christian “ethos” to stand before the faithful, sincerely apologize for his serious trespasses, and ask for forgiveness – especially in Astoria, where almost everybody has learned of his various “mistakes” and sins.
As I said, this is the degenerate “character” of the Patriarchate Hierarchs… This whole story reminds me of an episode in Paris where the “boyfriend” of Emmanuella, then assistant bishop Maximos (they had invited Bulgarian gay escorts to the building of the Metropolis) after a parishioner refused to kiss his hand at the end of the liturgy, he stopped and explained that “kissing his hand is required.” The parishioner walked away in disgust, telling Maximos that seeing his hand up close would bring to mind what dirty acts this hand was doing previously…
Will you, the faithful Orthodox of the New Jersey Metropolis, kiss Apostolos’s hand?
September 15, 2023, n.stamatakis@aol.com www.helleniscope.com
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So Apostolos KNOWS he’s disdained by Orthodox faithful. Yes?
The synthetic woke Bishop knows we got the memo of his true allegiance.
ANAXIOS!
So a. Apostolos, a GOA impostor, reprobate, sexual deviant who does financial hanky panky will be the new bishop?
What’s the matter with the flock? Their duty to the Church is to prevent this clown show from taking place.
The poor are not allowed to take part! Good. God is watching. Save the poor from diabolical wolves in beastly cassocks! The poor need to buy food and medicine – not spare their dollars on pigs.
Every word u say is true. They revolt me. Utterly. You wonder why people in their thousands are walking away. These scum have no shame. But soon they will have no church.
Nikos, I’m just curious, where are these thousands that are walking away from the GOA going to church now? (There really hasn’t been a large influx of ‘spiritual refugees’ into the OCA, Antiochian Archdiocese, or ROCOR…at least that I know of. Are they just staying put at home now? If so, that’s another tragedy in itself!
Alex, I can’t answer for thousands but I can speak for my family. We are third generation Greek-Americans. We still speak Greek, we preserve the customs and traditions and we love our culture but we live our faith first. We have felt less and less comfortable in in the GOA for years. The last straw was Archbishop Elpidophoros’ blasphemy and defamation of the Holy Theotokos in his remarks at the March for Life. That was the last straw. We have left our GOA Church, that our great grandparents helped found, and are now in the OCA. Not perfect but so much better. We are the typical family leaving the GOA for the OCA. After we Greeks stabbed Metropolitan Onuphry in the back in Ukraine, I can tell you our move is now permanent. We miss Greek in the Liturgy but hopefully Metropolitan Tikhon will consider giving us a Greek vicariate with the OCA. If God wills it!
Michael, I feel for you! There are Greeks in the OCA, as well as faithful of Arabic descent. Plus, you are probably aware of the Romanian Episcopate, Albanian Archdiocese and Bulgarian Diocese under the OCA umbrella. A Greek vicariate (or diocese or episcopate) would be wonderful—in my opinion, too! But I feel that in order for that to happen, the OCA, Antiochians, ROCOR, Serbians, etc., would have to break communion with the GOA somewhere down the line. (As each day passes, it looks more and more likely.) And, on that note, there would have to be a large enough movement from the Greek clergy and laity to just pack up and leave the GOA. When it does—I hope that Metropolitan Tikhon—and the OCA, will do the right thing! I pray that they will do the right thing!
At a ~250k annual salary, they probably don’t care who calls them Anaxios…
But, since they care more about the money than they do about public opinion, the public can “cut off” their funding, and that would be an extension of calling them “Anaxios”, since that’s the only language they understand these days…
That’s the model the “big donors” used to get rid of Spyridon, so we know that it yields results.
Marco they do not care about your money and my money , they have
The “ archons” that are giving them
the crowns, the sticks , the clothes
and money and use them as their
poppets .
In that ceremony the church was full
of sheep……I was trying to find a goat…. but it was impossible.
I’m SO glad I left the Greek Archdiocese 30 years ago! God save the pious (Greeks) and punish the wicked! 🙏🏼 ROCOR is by no means perfect, and we have our problems; but our bishops are genuine monks who come from monasteries. They don’t live in mansions nor ride in limousines nor have 250K salaries. Έλεος, Κύριε!
God bless. I am in Bulgaria and same.
This is not right , the church besides our
touch with God and our culture , is also
gathering amongst people , amongst friends, amongst Greek Orthodox Christian’s.
I understand that the heads of our faith are
rotten…. they only care about money and
S…….. instead of fighting amongst us
let us be United under an organization , collect a lot of money and fight for our
rights . This kind of movement may guide us
with God’s will to the right detection.
We , the people are responsible for our church , for the future of our children , grand
children , for our faith and for ourselves.
For the first time we have the selection of a known homosexual as a shepherd of a metropolis, which is a de facto legalisation of homosexuality in our church! Is homosexuality a sin or not?
And also we have the crowds of the faithful people of New Jersey left out of the enthronement ceremony, to avoid possible protests! Where is the Greek Orthodox Church of America heading?
Don’t look to the wicked hierarchs to answer your question. Your Bible ha many quotes about homosexuality.
And dpm’t look for those answers from the Clergy of the New Jersey Churches under the New Bishop, since I have already asked , based on the information provided by Helleniscope and other publications!
Specifically I asked my Parish priest and entire Chruch Bostf yo sndert the following questions …
“Is homesexuality in our ministry and faithful an acceptable practice and not offensive to oru religious teachings!
“Is the New Bishop Homosexual? And would they ask him to directly answer that question, since , lying would me a Mortal sin and constiture immediate removal from heaven and earth?
“Why have the Clergy and Church board of my church under the New Bishop remained silent to the persecution of the Orthodox Clergy of the Ukraine and its Churches , and if they consider the Orthodox chruch Monkd, Clergy and Nun s “Russian Sabatuers dressed up like Priests”?
I also advised them failure to answer those questions by a steward of the N.J. church undr the control of the New bishop …would force me to not attend the New bishops coronation and anytime he is attending my church !
To date they have not answered! ; However, once installed I will directly ask him those questions ?
Po po… Aisxos! Shameful! Anaxios!!!
Who could be so foolish to kiss this Bishop’s hand knowing his abominations?
It’s tragic at every level…. Simony (Σιμωνία) is the very serious trespass of charging for sacraments and other church rites. It is prohibited by numerous Sacred Canons, such as Penthekte Synod of Trulo Can. 23; Apostolic Can. 29; Fourth Ecum. Council Can. 2; Seventh Ecum. Council Can. 4, 15, 19; Basil’s Epistle 20; etc., etc. These criminals were probably out the day these Canons were taught at the seminary, or the people they paid to attend for them forgot to take good notes. It’s disgusting!
Η αναξιότης ακούγεται από τους πιστούς και η φωνή τους φθάνει στο Θεό. Αυτός θα αναστήσει την Εκκλησία Του.
Φωνή Λαού , οργή Θεού, λόγια σοφά βγαλμένα μέσα από τη ζωή,
The $125 is to prevent someone dropping by just to yell Anaxios!
The faithful people of God can watch the enthronement of the unfaithful live:
https://m.youtube.com/live/sC89aGZ5Hw0?si=itk1WAS5JrdediU_
I think you are incorrect, Nick. The $125 is for the luncheon, plain and simple. And the “official” flyer of the enthronement states that very clearly. If I wanted to attend the enthronement but could not go to the luncheon because of prior commitments, I would be able to just show up at the church and no fee would be required of me. (That would be tantamount to charging “admission” to attend the enthronement, which I don’t believe is the case.) Perhaps they are giving “preference” (in terms of seating in the Cathedral) to those that WILL be attending the luncheon afterwards, but I don’t believe you have to pay this $125 to attend the enthronement. Whoever told you that is, I believe, mistaken. This is how rumors and scandals are born.
I have very good sources and this is exactly what they told me. But what I have repeatedly written about Apostolos are not rumors: Repeatedly caught in the act, both here and in Greece, involved in sex scandals with an unerage nun at Saint Irene Chrysovalantou (the famous scandals with Paisios and Vikentios), various financial trespasses, etc, etc…
Well, if these things that mr. Stamatakis is writing are wrong, why there is no reaction from the metropolitan or the archbishop? If they were writing for you falsely that you are homosexual, wouldn’t you say something, or sue them?
Dear Lord what a mess this clergyman Apostolos?!
An Archimandrite or Bishop is supposed to live a chaste life yet the dude is sexually depraved and promiscuous in worst way. What’ll we hear next?
Bishop Apostolos got AIDS?
My dear friends is not only Apostolos ,
Apostolos is the bottom of the peak…….
😱🤣🤣🤣
And not to forget to mention that the majority of the attendees of the enthronement were members of AHEPA and priests! And the live streaming was carried out by the unofficial AHEPA YouTube news channel ! AHEPA is a guarantee for depravity and treason… Look how they managed the Prespes agreement, they didn’t say even one word!
DO NOT DOUBT ME AND HELLENISCOPE’S SOURCES…
1) Yes, that’s right, if someone is “insulted” they can file a lawsuit… I have been writing about Apostolos’s trespasses for years. And I remind all of you that GOARCH and others, using the Education Director A. Koularmanis, filed a “defamation lawsuit” against me. When the court heard the case preliminarily, it denied all their requests!!! The case has been going on for over three years – until recently, a few months ago, it hit a wall.
What wall did it hit? It hit the wall of “discovery” – that is, they do not want to answer our demands to produce documents!! Can you guess why they refuse to do so? Catsimatides, the VP of the Archdiocesan Council, used his own personal lawyer, a Park Avenue lawyer (who is paid handsomely), to fight me!!! Do you realize what it means to fight “pro se” against a billionaire’s lawyer? They tried to silence Helleniscope, and so far they have failed!!
2) Since 2019 I called twenty times on Patriarch Bartholomew to demand from the Paris (France) Police the reports proving that Emmanuel(la) and Maximos had repeatedly invited Bulgarian gay escorts INTO the Metropolis Building… He plays deaf… BARTHOLOMEW HAS EVIDENCE AVAILABLE TO HIM AND REFUSES TO SEE IT… instead of punishing them, he promoted them… Why? For two reasons: First, because he himself is part of the same gay “gang of thieves” that have ravaged Orthodoxy. Second, because all of them are part of a globalist Cabal, and they promote homosexuality at all levels… Do you realize that, as we speak, Emmanuel(la) is second-in-command at the Patriarchate?
3) Some of you, very few, are hallucinating that Helleniscope does not have credibility. If we did not have credibility they would not fight us. They are afraid of the truth. They are afraid of Helleniscope…
I CHALLENGE APOSTOLOS AND BARTHOLOMEW AND ALL OF THEM to answer our well-founded allegations. They will not. They will “pretend” until they can’t anymore…
And Jesus said, “For judgment I have come into this world, that those who do not see may see, and that those who see may be made blind.”
Breaking News
CBS “60 minutes telecast” with Zelensky …Pentagon now admits over 550,000 Ukrainian Soldiers are dead , and counter offensive has failed , but Jewish Neo Nazi Zionist Zelensky and Jewish Zionist State Department war coordinator Blinken will continue to send more Othodox Chritians to their death ..even for just 100 yards if territory , in a war they cannot win!
Nick Stamatakis ..was one of the first Journalist in the world to breach the Corrupt Media and U.S Congress propaganda lies that Ukraine was winning war and the Russians were in full retreat from the Ukraine to tell us of the suicidal death march and numbers perpetrated by Biden, Zelensky and Blinken ! While Bartholomew and the cabal in the Greek Orthodox State Department church were spreading false information that Russia has lost hundreds of thousands of Soldiers and were losing the war, and Zelensky was ” A ROLL MODEL” FOR EUROPEAN LEADERS IN perserving THEIR DEMOCRACIES”!
Alll Orhtodox Christians should join Hellensicope in demanding answers to the well founded allegations that they have been violating the basic tenets of the Orthodox Church as well as aiding and abetting the U.S and Ukrainian Regimes to violate Domestic , International and U.N. charter laws to wage endless wars and to oppress the religious and human rights freedoms of Ukrainin Orthodox Christians in Ukraine!
Specifically, ask them ( Bartholomew, Epi and Parish priests and entire Chuch Boards to answer the following questions …
“Is homesexuality in our ministry and faithful an acceptable practice and not offensive to our religious teachings!
“Is the New Bishop Homosexual? And would they ask him to directly answer that question, since , lying would me a Mortal sin and constiture immediate removal from heaven and earth?
“Why have the Clergy and Church board of my church under the New Bishop remained silent to the persecution of the Orthodox Clergy of the Ukraine and its Churches , and if they consider the Orthodox chruch Monkd, Clergy and Nun s “Russian Sabatuers dressed up like Priests”?
” Why did Bartholomew and the Archdiocese of the Greek Orthodox Church defraud the Greek Orthodox Christians Community and mandate Church offficials to take a “Covid Vaccine” which has proven not only to be ineffective , but dangerous to the populist of the world ? Fraud and Drug trafficking are racketeering offenses subjuct to 30 years in Prison! On what authority did Bartholomew have to enforse a defective product which he has absolutely no knowledge of to the Greek Orthodox Community … and now has done great harm to them ?
Nick Stamatakis and Helleniscope have always been fact checked by me ..by doing what all Christians should do … source mutliple sources of information! And so far …in the end … Nick has been doing exactly what Christ demands of us … “to let us see what we cannot see …and make those like the STate Department, Zelensky, and Bartholomew and their supporters blind to the world !
Therefor, if they refuse to answer these allegations… then we can concloude that they are ” U.S government sabatuers of not only the Greek Orthodox Church, but all Orthodoxy of the world dressed up like Priests”!
The answer to all your questions: 5013c churches are run by government. The preachers are covetous for various reasons.