In keeping with the Fileleftheros newspaper, Archbishop Yeorgios of the Greek Church made statements in regards to the Avvakum Osiu Monastery scandal, which shook the Greek Orthodox Church with occasions resembling accumulating donations by deceiving folks with faux “miracles”, shopping for villas and lands from Greece and Southern Cyprus, and accusations of sexual harassment.
Yeorgios stated that this scandal that shook the general public shook him much more and that the detrimental picture of the Church within the eyes of the believers made him lose sleep.
Yeorgios said that what is needed now could be for the incident to be dealt with accurately, all features of the incident to be revealed and all these accountable to be punished.
Yeorgios said that “the church's plunder isn’t Hasan's pastry” and in addition used the expression “the married home, the peasant village” for these accountable.
