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Bishop Amvrosios excommunicates PM Mitsotakis, Religion Minister

One of the most hardcore bishops of the Greek Orthodox Church, Amvrosios, excommunicated the Prime Minister, the Education & Religious Affairs Minister as well as the head of the Civil Protection over the dispute whether the faithful can get infected with the coronavirus through the Holy Communion. Bishop Amvrosios read the severe “punishment”  on the first day churches in Greece opened again after two months of coronavirus lockdown.

After the Sunday Mass was concluded, retired Bishop Amvrosios read the so-called “Great Excommunication” on PM Kyriakos Mitsotakis, Minister Niki Kerameos and Nikos Hardalias.

While Amvrosios was reading his text, the faithful started leaving the church one after the other, local media reported. The acting bishop who was not present was reportedly disturbed, the local priests said they were not aware of Amvrosios’ intentions.

With a post on his personal blog a few days ago, the former Bishop of Kalavryta and Aigialeia had threatened a few days ago that he will excommunicate Minister Kerameos after she said that the coronavirus is transmitted through the saliva.

Amvrosios considered the minister’s statement as an exhortation to the faithful to refrain from participating in the Holy Communion, where the symbolic “blood and body of Jesus Christ” is shared with a common spoon among several people.

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Hardcore Bishop kicks needy man out of Seniors’ Home for being gay

Justice stepped in and investigates media reports according to which a needy old man was kicked out

Justice stepped in and investigates  media reports according to which a needy old man was kicked out from a seniors’ home for being gay. The Seniors’ Home belongs to the Metropolis of Kalavryta of the hardcore Bishop Amvrosios.

According to local media reports, the elderly man is suffering from serious health problems. When his condition deteriorated, he was transferred to the Metropolis’ Home for Seniors from the Elderly Care Unit “Aid at Home” of Patras Municipality.

The needy man was allegedly expelled from the Home last week, when the Bishop learned that he was gay.

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Priests sprinkle streets with holy water against COVID-19 (video)

On the back of a pickup truck, priests sprinkled with holy water the streets of Aigio in order to protect the people and the town from the coronavirus.

The two priests had climbed on the back of a farmer’s pickup truck that took them around the town of Aigio in northern Peloponnese on Tuesday.

“Unbelievable but true!” commented the reporter of Patras TV on the video. He said that the priests had the blessing of the local Bishop for this unique rescue action.

He recalled that the former Bishop of the area, retired  Bishop Ambrosios, had recently urged the faithful to use holy water to protect themselves from the virus.

Ambrosios had claimed that he had found THE only medicine against the coronavirus and that was a small spray bottle full of holy water.

He advised the faithful to “find a bottle, fill it with holy water” and when it’s almost over to add [plain] water.

If you add water to the Holy Water, “it sanctifies,” he underlined.

“You will use it for spraying yourself, putting it in your mouth and in your hands, if you are afraid of getting sick because you touched an infected, say ‘Lord Jesus Christ, have mercy on me. This is the eternal and indefinable medicine. The Great Holy Water,” Ambrosios told the congregation beginning of the month.

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A day after resignation, Bishop Amvrosios says he has no regrets

A day after his resignation, the ultra-conservative Bishop Amvrosios of Kalavryta, who often spoken disparagaingly of gays and gained notoriety for his support of the extreme-right Golden Dawn party, declared on Monday that he has no regrets.  

During the Sunday Mass in which he announced his resignation, he had apologized for causing any upset with his statements.

However, in comments to ANT1 television channel on Monday, the 81-year-old bishop said he had not had "any specific case" in mind when he apologized. "I am not apologizing for any specific cases but because noone is infallible and it is possible that we upset people without intending to, I apologize to my flock, seeing forgiveness if I bothered anyone, so that I can be alright with my conscience," he said, adding however that, "I have nothing to regret."

As for his description of gays as "the scum of society" - a comment that led to a court handing him a seven-month suspended sentence for hate speech in January, he said he regarded it as "a medal."

"The Bible is the law of our lives, the word of God which we preach," he said. "The Bible condemns the abnormal relations and when the servant of god preaches the truths of the Bible, this is not something for which he can be condemned," he added.

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Controversial Metropolitan Bishop of Kalavryta, Amvrosios, resigns

Hardcore Metropolitan Bishop of Kalavryta and Aigialia, Amvrosios announced his resignation during the morning mess on Sunday. The resignation of the 81-year-old Amvrosios was planted for quite some time after he was sentenced for hate speech.

In his speech to the parish on Sunday, he explained the reasons for his resignation saying among others “our homeland is in danger and our faith is being persecuted.”

He served as Metropolitan for 41 years.

The controversial Metropolitan was sued and condemned earlier this year by a local court to a seven-month suspended sentence for hate speech against gays, and for his pronouncement, last year, that the eadly wildfire in Mati was God’s punishment for the “atheist” then-Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras.

He is a supporter of far-right party Golden Dawn which he had described as the “golden hope for the nation.”

To Amvrosios’ resignation, SYRIZA MEP and Vice President of the European Parliament, Dimitris Papadimoulis commented describing him as “far-right, racist and bigot.”

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