Tag: Parthenios Kolonis

Scandal and murder: the story of Fr. Parthenios Kolonis

Mar 30, 2011

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by

Matthew Namee

in Orthodoxy in the Americas

The following item appeared in the Washington Post (among other papers) on July 6, 1933: Martins Ferry, Ohio, July 5 (A.P.). – The Rev. Parthenios Colonis, 72, pastor of the Martins Ferry Greek Orthodox Catholic Church, died today from hatchet-inflicted wounds. He was found unconscious in the basement of the church Saturday night, his skull…