A 30-year-old priest from Thessaloniki who is alleged to have swindled tens of thousands of euros from scores of unsuspecting Greeks by promising them jobs that never materialized was detained on Monday on fraud charges along with a 45-year-old unemployed resident of the northern port city. The pair are alleged to have lured their victims […]

Rev. James Dokos, the suspended former senior pastor of Saints Peter and Paul Greek Orthodox Church in Glenview pled not guilty to theft charges at an arraignment in a Milwaukee County courtroom last week. At his Tuesday, Aug. 26 arraignment before Milwaukee County Circuit Court Judge M. Joseph Donald, Dokos was formally charged with one […]

SYOSSET, NY [OCA Communications] — A document titled “The Findings, Actions, and Recommendations of the OCA Organizational Task Force” was presented to and accepted with minor amendments by members of the Metropolitan Council on Monday, December 11, 2006. View the complete text of the document.

The Metropolitan Council, ‘the permanent executive body of the Church Administration’, is now squarely in the crosshairs of the crisis which has engulfed the OCA. Set to meet June 13-14 in Syosset, the 28 member committee is challenged from all sides, as well as from within, as it seeks to fulfill its duty ‘of implementing […]

On Wednesday, January 31st, members of the Metropolitan Council received the following update from the Special Commission charged with completing the ongoing investigation. It read: “Dear Metropolitan Council members: Pursuant to His Beatitude’s charge to the Commission established to continue the investigation, the Commission is required to periodically report back to the Metropolitan Council on […]

Two documents from the Special Commission, both sent to the Metropolitan Council but neither made public by Syosset, reveal tensions between the Special Commission and Syosset over the nature, scope, and purpose of the investigation. More seriously, a comparison of the two documents reveals a clear attempt to exert influence over the actions of the  […]

Allegations of financial misconduct are rocking the Orthodox Church in America, whose former treasurer says top officials misappropriated millions of dollars in donations from agribusiness titan Dwayne Andreas, U.S. military chaplains and ordinary parishioners across the country. The highest officers of the 400,000-member denomination, an offshoot of the Russian Orthodox Church, are accused of using […]

• Allegations Of Financial Impropriety Confirmed,    Detailed in Oral Report by Proskauer Rose LLP • Special Church Commission, Led by Archbishop Job,    Established to Continue Investigation • Possible Disciplinary Action by Synod Late Tuesday night the extraordinary joint session of the OCA’s Synod of Bishops and Metropolitan Council unexpectedly released the following statement, […]

Former Wauwatosa priest James Dokos pleaded not guilty Tuesday, Aug. 26, to a charge of felony theft. He is accused of embezzling more than $110,000 from Annunciation Greek Orthodox Church. Dokos, 62, is now a Chicago resident. If found guilty, he could see up to 10 years in prison and $25,000 in fines. The criminal […]

The Rev. James Dokos priest pleaded not guilty to a felony theft charge on August 26 during his arraignment in a Milwaukee County courtroom. Dokos, 62 is charged with improperly spending more than $100,000 from a trust fund intended to benefit Annunciation Greek Orthodox Church in Milwaukee where he served as pastor. He was transferred […]