{"id":678,"date":"2005-01-31T19:40:51","date_gmt":"2005-01-31T23:40:51","guid":{"rendered":"\/?p=678"},"modified":"2005-01-31T19:41:35","modified_gmt":"2005-01-31T23:41:35","slug":"christodoulos-sees-bad-apples-in-church","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.orthodoxytoday.org\/blog\/2005\/01\/christodoulos-sees-bad-apples-in-church\/","title":{"rendered":"Christodoulos sees bad apples in Church"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.ekathimerini.com\/4dcgi\/_w_articles_politics_100017_31\/01\/2005_52393\">Kathimerini<\/a><br \/>\nAhead of top-level Church talks on burgeoning claims of corruption among prominent churchmen, Archbishop Christodoulos yesterday admitted that the Church has its fair share of rotten apples.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The Church also has people who have broken their oaths,&#8221; Christodoulos said during an Athens sermon. &#8220;But it has ways of ensuring that such problems are removed.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>On Thursday, the Church&#8217;s ruling body, the Holy Synod, will meet to discuss allegations regarding Archimandrite Iakovos Yiossakis &#8212; who is being investigated in connection with an alleged court corruption scandal and antiquities theft &#8212; as well as claims by a former bishop that the Archbishopric hushed up a drugs scandal involving a bishop and a close aide to Christodoulos. In a sermon yesterday, Anthimos, Bishop of Thessaloniki, said that &#8220;the Church, society and the judiciary are in the throes of a crisis.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Kathimerini Ahead of top-level Church talks on burgeoning claims of corruption among prominent churchmen, Archbishop Christodoulos yesterday admitted that the Church has its fair share of rotten apples. &#8220;The Church also has people who have broken their oaths,&#8221; Christodoulos said during an Athens sermon. &#8220;But it has ways of ensuring that such problems are removed.&#8221; &#8230; <a title=\"Christodoulos sees bad apples in Church\" class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.orthodoxytoday.org\/blog\/2005\/01\/christodoulos-sees-bad-apples-in-church\/\" aria-label=\"Read more about Christodoulos sees bad apples in Church\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1319,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"generate_page_header":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-678","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-orthodox-christianity"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.orthodoxytoday.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/678","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.orthodoxytoday.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.orthodoxytoday.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.orthodoxytoday.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1319"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.orthodoxytoday.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=678"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.orthodoxytoday.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/678\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.orthodoxytoday.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=678"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.orthodoxytoday.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=678"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.orthodoxytoday.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=678"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}