Election of Chicago Metropolitan Canceled
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S O C V ΓΡΑΦΕΙ ΤΗΝ ΙΣΤΟΡΙΑ nd W ΤΟΥ ΕΛΛΗΝΙΣΜΟΥ E ΑΠΟ ΤΟ 1915 The National Herald 10 2 N anniversa ry www.thenationalherald.com A wEEkly GREEk-AmERICAN PuBlICATION 1915-2017 VOL. 20, ISSUE 1031 July 15-21, 2017 c v $1.50 PBS Series This is Election of Chicago Metropolitan Canceled America Visits Greece Ecumenical Highlights NHS Patriarchate cites incomplete list of TNH Staff Marcus Family Foundation, the candidates National Hellenic Society WASHINGTON, DC – This is (NHS), American College of America & The World is a series Greece (ACG), and the Heritage By Theodore Kalmoukos hosted by Dennis Wholey, a Greece Program will be high - journalist and bestselling author lighted in Part II on Sunday, July NEW YORK – The election of with over 40 years of broadcast 16 at 10 PM. The episode will Bishop Sevastianos of Zela as experience. The weekly series feature interviews of several the new Metropolitan of covers international affairs and Heritage Greece student partic - Chicago was canceled by the is produced in Washington, DC, ipants and American College of Holy Synod of the Ecumenical featuring countries around the Greece President, David Horner. Patriarchate. The election was world. Greece Today – Part II fea - scheduled to take place on The series is broadcast na - tures Greece’s economy and Thursday, July 13 at the Phanar. tionally on public television and debt crisis along with the The National Herald has PBS stations, and it is distrib - refugee crisis which are dis - learned that the unexpected uted internationally by Voice of cussed during a visit to Athens. turn of events is due to the List America Television. Wholey ex - The American College of Greece of Candidates which was con - plores the cultural, social, and and NHS Heritage Greece Pro - sidered problematic and incom - political lives of people around gram, Stavros Niarchos Founda - plete. the world. tion Cultural Center, and the The List, however, had been The three-part series of This Acropolis are also featured in approved by the Ecumenical Pa - is America Visits Greece was the program. triarchate last March. Bishop shot in Greece and airs on three According to its mission Sevastianos of Zela had gath - consecutive Sundays: July 9, 16, statement, the National Hellenic ered 7 votes out of 8 who voted and 23. Society is an organization estab - for the triprosopon during the Thanks to the George & Judy lished to create a lasting net - selection on July 6 by the Holy work of Greek Americans that TNH ARCHIVES Eparchial Synod of the Greek will preserve our heritage His All-Holiness the Ecumenical Patriarch Bartholomew in Constantinople. The Holy Synod Orthodox Archdiocese of Amer - through the sponsorship and ini - of the Ecumenical Patriarchate canceled the election of the new Metropolitan of Chicago. ica. tiation of programs that support The Ecumenical Patriarchate our Hellenic culture, benefit our has the right and privilege to members and their families, and cancel the selection of the three honor our ancestors. NHS mem - person ballot that is instituted bers represent accomplished Ageing Greece’s Future, Drop in Pop. by the Holy Eparchial Synod of men and women in our commu - America. The practice thus far nity and membership is solely was that the Synod of the Patri - by invitation. As is our tradition, ATHENS (ANA) – Demographic ses department Prof. Vyronas decades), the appearance after archate presided by His All Ho - fellowship and enrichment are trends in Greece – including the Kotzamanis told the Athens- 2010 of a new wave of flight liness Ecumenical Patriarch a prominent part of this society. latest wave of emigration start - Macedonian News Agency abroad, especially of young Bartholomew was to elect the Through the support of pro - ing after 2010 – paint a future (ANA) on Tuesday. Greeks of reproductive age, that candidates who receives the ma - grams that foster the preserva - of dwindling overall population, “Greece is currently marked is not expected to stop soon and jority of the votes during the se - tion of the Hellenic heritage in with an ever-decreasing propor - by an overconcentration of its whose result will be the appear - lection process of the triproso - the United States, NHS strives tion of working age and eco - population into an extremely re - ance of a negative migration pon (three person ballot). to be a beacon for the promo - nomically active individuals, the stricted section of its territory balance,” Kotzamanis said in an This development may create head of Thessaly University’s (the result of successive waves a crisis between the Ecumenical George Marcus Continued on page 2 Demographics and Social Analy - of internal migration in previous Continued on page 8 Patriarchate and the Archbishop Demetrios of America because this is a direct rejection of such an important recommendation of the Church of America ex - A Road Full of Greek pressed by its Holy Eparchial Synod. TNH was unable to contact Monuments in the Heart His Eminence Archbishop Demetrios at press time despite multiple calls to the Archdio - of Montreal cese. TNH has learned that Bishop By Zois Marinos and the Greek Immigrant,” says Sevastianos is in Cyprus visiting programmer Stelios Papaniko - family members. MONTREAL, CANADA – It is, laou, 47, from Kalamata. While His Grace Bishop Sevastianos perhaps, the only place in the Eleni Alexopoulou, 55, from of Zela came first during the whole world outside of Greece Preveza, an employee in a laun - process of the selection of the adorned by three different dry room, was the only one sur - three person ballot (trirproso - Greek monuments within about veyed who knew about the pon) on July 6 by the Holy a one-kilometer (less than 2/3 sculpture devoted to the Eparchial Synod of the Greek of a mile) radius. Olympic ideals. “But I did not Orthodox Archdiocese of Amer - The uniqueness of Jean combine them. Yes, three Greek ica, presided by His Eminence Talon Street in Montreal was re - monuments on the same street, Archbishop Demetrios. inforced after the unveiling of one close to the other... It seems The triprosopon was com - the Sculpture of the Greek Im - migrant on June 30, the third Continued on page 4 Continued on page 4 in a series of Greek monuments imerazande.gr via AP in the Park Extension. Suspects Charged in American Tourist Death “As far as I know, there is no other place abroad which, Policeman lead suspects to court in Zakynthos. Eight suspects were charged with involvement within a few hundred meters, in the beating to death of a 22-year-old American tourist. See related story on page 8. hosts three Greek sculptures,” says journalist and writer Justin Frangoulis-Argyris, secretary of the Montréal branch of the Greek Lyceum. This shows the Matsikoudis for Jersey City Mayor temporal influence of Hel - lenism, a self-evident conclu - sion, but it is always useful to TNH Staff for mayor of that city, the sec - the city less affordable. point it out. ond largest in the state of New Jersey City was a destination The National Herald on July NEW JERSEY – Bill (Vasilis) Jersey. Matsikoudis, a Greek- for the first generation of Greek 6 made a small survey among Matsikoudis, was the chief at - American with roots in Thessa - immigrants and two historic expatriates in the shops, parks, torney for Jersey City for nine loniki, spoke with The National parishes are located there, Saint and streets of Park Extension. years, and is currently running Herald about his campaign and Demetrios and the Annunciation The area was once an emblem - the issues facing Jersey City. of the Virgin Mary. Although the atic district for the Greeks of Located just across the Hud - number of Greeks and Greek- Montreal. And it remains, For subscription: son River from Manhattan, Jer - Americans is about a thousand, though, with less Greek popu - 718.784.5255 sey City is rapidly developing the Greeks are thriving in the lation, as a large part of the [email protected] and in a few years may surpass community with real estate Greeks have moved over the last Newark in terms of population. holdings and businesses, includ - decades mainly to the Laval re - TNH/COSTAS BEJ Matsikoudis told TNH that the ing restaurants. gion. Art Works for Diaspora Exhibit in the Hamptons development in the last twenty Matsikoudis’ father, Elpido - Most are surprised by the years is similar to that in Brook - finding. Art lovers attended the opening reception for the Philip Tsiaras lyn and Astoria and has made Continued on page 4 “I know the statue of Athena exhibit at The Muses. See related story on page 2. 2 COMMUNITY THE NATIONAL HERALD, JULY 15-21, 2017 Greek-Australian Filmmaker Nicolaos Demourtzidis Talks to TNH By Eleni Sakellis friend right before my eyes and hardest project we have done, I couldn't handle it. This is the when you are emotionally at - NEW YORK – The film Istoria part when the ‘bad news’ hit tached to a project it always follows Greek-Australian film - hard on me of his disease. I was makes it that one bit harder. We maker Nicolaos Demourtzidis, going to lose my Pappou like it had to stay professional and let his father, Peter, and grandfa - or not and his story…my story! the story unfold and not letting ther Elias, who suffered from This was the catalyst that made any tears get in the way. There Alzheimer’s disease, as they we want to do it, so many peo - were scenes where my Pappou travel from Australia to Greece ple told me it was too late, and was crying his soul out and rip - to help Elias find closure.