Newsday.com: Jerusalem Patriarch Demoted to Monk

For Jerusalem Patriarch, Irineos, has been demoted to a monk. However, he does not acknowledge his new position. Even though he has been voted out by his own bishops and has lost his position of Patriarch throughout Orthodoxy he cannot be removed unless the governments in areas where his congregation lives — Israel, Jordan and the Palestinian Authority — withdraw their recognition of him. So far only Jordan has done that. In the meantime he continues on, denying any role in the scandal and standing his ground.

Hollywood couldn’t produce a more dramatic story than this.

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