Dubious Dealings Are Revealed by Audit of Greek Churches in UT

Salt Lake City (UT)
The National Herald

Theodore Kalmoukos

August 15, 2013

Salt Lake City, UT – Alarming situations have been created at the parish of Holy Trinity Cathedral in Salt lake City and also at the headquarters of the Greek Orthodox Archdiocese of America because a financial audit at the parish discovered strange financial activities by two priests which may implicate the parish and the Archdiocese with the Internal Revenue Service.

Confidential documents acquired by TNH show that priests Mathew Gilbert and Mike Kouremetis had open benevolent funds accounts supposedly to assist discreetly and confidently people in need, but instead Gilbert wrote checks to his sons and Kouremetis paid his secretary’s house rent. He had also authorized her as a cosigner on the account.

The Salt Lake City Greek Orthodox Community has two churches: the Holy Trinity Cathedral where Gilbert is pastoring and the Prophet Elias where Kouremetis…