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The National Herald - November 2, 2007

We Ought to Agonize About What the Future Holds

By Theodore Kalmoukos

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The next question which naturally arises is also crucial: Who is going to replace today’s Archbishop and the older hierarchs after they’re gone? For the sake of discussion,  | if Archbishop Demetrios relinquishes his position tomorrow, I’m afraid that the Church in America will find itself in much the same position as in August of 1999, when Archbishop Spyridon was ousted.

In other words, unless it has already started thinking about these things, the Ecumenical Patriarchate would be completely unprepared. Bartholomew will panic once again, and he will start searching left and right due to a lack of strategy or proper planning for an alternative solution. Moreover, the next archbishop would have to be a weak leader in order to be kept “under control.” Rev. Alex Karloutsos who, in the name of the Patriarch acts as the “real Exarch” in the United States, and will most definitely try to install his “own guy” in order to simply continue doing “his thing,” which is technically to advise the Archons and manage the Church’s big-money foundations, as he has been doing throughout most of his career.

I don’t believe that a strong and decent hierarch, under these circumstances, would accept an invitation to become the next Archbishop of America. Who in his right mind would want to have Karloutsos undermining him day and night?

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