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Chicago Tribune
By Lisa Black and Alexandra Chachkevitch, Chicago Tribune reporters
7:04 a.m. CDT, September 27, 2013
A request by a Glenview church to suspend its priest until the conclusion of a criminal investigation that involves him has prompted a sharp rebuke from the leader of the Greek Orthodox Church in Chicago, who then ordered the removal of the parish council president who made the request.
James Gottreich, council president at Sts. Peter and Paul Church, wrote last week to Metropolitan Iakovos, the patriarch of the Greek Orthodox Metropolis of Chicago, asking that the Glenview church’s pastor, the Rev. James Dokos, be placed on leave until the out-of-state criminal probe has wrapped up.
The district attorney’s office in Milwaukee confirmed it has launched a formal investigation into how money was distributed from a $1.3 million trust fund set up to benefit Annunciation Church in Milwaukee. Dokos oversaw the trust fund as pastor at Annunciation before being transferred to Sts. Peter and Paul last year.
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