Archimandrite Stanley R. Adamakis
Aliases:
Stan Adamakis
Stan Adams
Convicted, Sanctioned, Sued
Archimandrite Stanley Adamakis was a priest in the Greek Orthodox Archdiocese of America (GOA). As a boy, Fr. Stanley was at altar server at Annunciation Greek Orthodox Cathedral in Boston. Archbishop Iakovos Coucouzis was the priest at the cathedral at that time, and the archbishop later ordained Fr. Stanley to the priesthood.
Fr. Stanley was convicted in 1986 of molesting two adolescent boys in Torrance, California. He was sentenced to seventy-eight days in jail.
While still on probation for that offense, Fr. Stanley molested two additional boys he met through an Episcopal Church youth group in Hermosa Beach, California. He pleaded guilty to the new charges in March, 1990, and was sentenced to nine years and eight months in prison -- eight years for the probation violation and an additional twenty months on the new charges of sexual battery and child molestation. The priest spent the next seven years in prison.
When the second set of charges was filed, Metropolitan Anthony Gergiannakis, the GOA bishop for California at the time, said a defrockment action had been pending against Fr. Stanley for more than a year, ”stemming from repeated, but never substantiated, allegations of 'sexual misbehavior'.” The Metropolitan also said that Fr. Stanley ”had been forced to leave posts in Montreal and Albuquerque because of unproven molestation allegations.”
Fr. Stanley was returned to the status of a layman by the GOA on March 20, 1990.
A lawsuit for sexual abuse was filed in Albuquerque, New Mexico, against Fr. Stanley R. Adamakis and the GOA on July 1, 1993. The plaintiff and the GOA filed a joint motion for dismissal with prejudice a little over a year later, when the plaintiff received a settlement for an undisclosed amount.
(D.L.S. v. Greek Orthodox Archdiocese of America, Case #D-202-CV-9306214)
On July 20, 2003, when Adamakis was 61 years old, he was murdered by a 24 year old man. Adamakis had a sexual relationship with this young man. A law enforcement source said that the relationship between the two men began around the time that Adamakis was released from state prison.
Another civil suit against Fr. Stanley Adamakis and the GOA was filed in California. That suit was reportedly settled for $1 million in January of 2007.
Fr. Stanley served in the following GOA parishes:
St. George GOC (Albuquerque NM): 1972-74
Evangelismos GOC (Easton PA): 1978-79
St. Nicholas GOC (Newburgh, NY): ?
These parishes are in the Metropolis of Denver, the Metropolis of Pittsburgh, and the Archdiocesan District, respectively.
Fr. Stanley had also served at a parish in Montreal, Canada.
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