Fr. Athanasios Demos Named Archepiscopal Vicar of the Direct Archdiocesan District
1 Comments Published by georgy on Friday, September 5 at 3:58 PM.
NEW YORK – Archbishop Demetrios of America has appointed the Reverend Protopresbyter Athanasios (Al) Demos to be Archiepiscopal Vicar of the Direct Archdiocesan District. Fr. Demos will be working with Fr. Michael Kontogiorgis, Assistant Chancellor of the Archdiocese. Bishop Savas of Troas, Chancellor of the Archdiocese, will be on leave of absence until the end of December 2008.Fr. Demos, a native of Chicago, Ill., has served as a priest of the Greek Orthodox Archdiocese for forty years. He has served parishes in Rochester, Binghamton, and Greenlawn, NY; Charleston, W.Va.; Bethesda, Md; and Boston and Peabody, Mass. He has also served Hellenic College/Holy Cross Greek Orthodox School of Theology in Brookline, Mass., in a variety of capacities, including Dean of Admissions and Development Officer. For the past seven years, Fr. Demos has served as Chancellor of the Greek Orthodox Metropolis of Boston. He holds a Masters of Divinity in Theology from Holy Cross and a Doctor of Ministry degree in Pastoral Psychology from Andover-Newton Seminary in Newton, Mass. While serving as Archiepiscopal Vicar, Fr. Demos will also pastor the parish of St. John the Baptist Greek Orthodox Church on East 17th Street in New York City.Fr. Demos and his wife of forty years, Presvytera Carol (Psaros), are the parents of two sons, Constantine and Mark.
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Got Pope, Need No Bart charliepatseas@yahoo.com Flushing NY
The Holy Father gone to Turkey to redeem and consecrate the Greeks,
so don't need no more soviet temples. Don't need no gyro blimpie Bart
when got a regular Pope without the diner attitude. My pop kept
hitting momma with a skillet on the head. Friends ended up in the
hospital after their pop beat them. Pops got drunk and ruined my
first car. Killed two cats and a dog, thrown out the window.
Neighbor drowned the canaries in ouzo, lit, ate them. Ma overdid
whip so she could give less pie. All our stuff came pilfered, with
logos. Greeks overcook all meat so no one knows is bad. Another
banned tenants flushing toilet paper. Waiters inpune sanitation
because "dirty is natural and healthy." Priests just answered "behave,
respect, tradition!" Now priest comes "no intercommunion!" Where was
he when we needed him to protect us from our crazy parents? Don't
sell me "educated Greeks" because we know all them Trojan Horse
cheated on the exams. Besides it's just TV repair school. Remember
all those jailed old disco Greeks, tax cheats to "protest" Jerome Ford
stopping the Trojan Horse in Chyprious? We can't get good jobs
because no one trusts Greeks, because of Trojan Horse. They always
faked reading Greek. That's why we borrowed regular Catholic books
instead of read Greek. Sure, we sacrifice to Greek myths three times
a year to please yiayia, and she's nun the wiser when we go to regular
Catholic Mass on Sundays when she bummed from bouzaki dances. Ain't
need no more Bart, just the regular Pope. That's why we all married
regular Catholic when we grew up. So they can trust us.