Father Angelo Kasemeotes
Aliases:
Angelo Kassimiotis
Convicted
Fr. Angelo Kasemeotes, a widower with two grown children, was arrested in Durham, North Carolina, on March 31, 1992. The priest was accused of molesting a fifteen year old boy from his neighborhood. At the time, Fr. Angelo was the rector of St. Barbara Church in Durham. St. Barbara was, and is, a parish of the Greek Orthodox Archdiocese of America (GOA), Metropolis of Atlanta.
On December 2, 1992, Fr. Angelo pleaded guilty to the charges. He received a four year sentence, which the judge suspended. Although the priest was spared prison time, the judge ordered Fr. Angelo to serve twenty-one days in the Durham County Jail, followed by five years of probation. After completing his jail time, the priest was expected to move to Atlanta to live with his daughter and seek treatment for his alcoholism and sexual obsession.
Fr. Angelo was removed from his position at St. Barbara Church three days after his arrest. However, following his death in 1998, he was buried as a priest out of Annunciation Greek Orthodox Church in Milwaukee, Wisconsin. Annunciation is also a parish of the GOA, in the Metropolis of Chicago.
Fr. Angelo served St. Barbara Church in Durham for three years.
The priest also served at Annunciation in Milwaukee for fifteen years, ending with his 1986 resignation from that position. As reported in the Milwaukee Sentinel, the church board of Annunciation was not aware of any allegations involving the priest during his tenure there.
From Milwaukee, Fr. Angelo went to serve a small Orthodox community in Mexico City, Mexico.
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