The saga of the scandal-struck monastery of Osios Avakoum in Fterikoudi entered its final chapter this week, with the Holy Synod ruling in favour of upholding the disgraced monks’ defrocking.
The three monks for months rejected proceedings against them in an ongoing tactic of attacking their superior, Bishop Isaias of Tamasos, in their attempt to stave off a slew of sordid accusations, in both ecclesiastical and civil hearings.
Archimandrite Nektarios