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    Annual Payments by the Parishes of New England to the Archdiocese are Revealing and Interesting

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    By Webmaster on September 27, 2017 Orthodox News, Orthodox News Top Stories
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    The Curch of the Taxiarches in Watertown, MA. Photo; TNH/Theodos Kalmoukos

    Source: The National Herald

    By Theodoros Kalmoukos

    BOSTON,MA – The annual amounts New England parishes are obligated to give to the Archdiocese are really revealing and interesting. They are required to give 15% of their annual expenses to the Archdiocese, as it was decided abruptly without any information or advance notice to the Parishes in 2006 at the Clergy-Laity Congress in Nashville, TN. That formula was changed from 15% of income because the Church officials believed that many parishes were not reporting all their annual income or keeping double sets of records in order to avoid disclosing how much money they were bringing in.

    The Metropolis of Boston receives 25% of the total amount that its parishes contribute to the Archdiocese. That is the formula for the other metropolises as well. Beyond that, most of the metropolises, including Boston, have established special funds with various names and collect extra funds from parishes and individual faithful in order to support their ministries and operations.

    TNH has learned that many parishes in New England and in other areas of the United States are having trouble meeting their financial obligations to the Archdiocese and are constantly forced to ask their members for additional donations. They also organize Greek festivals, lotteries, Greek pastry bake sales, golf tournaments, cooking shows, fashion shows, and other fundraisers in order to satisfy the metropolises’ demands.

    Even large parishes have difficult paying annual dues to the Archdiocese and have asked for reduction. The most troubling issue is the spectacle of the empty churches on Sundays in most of New England, even in parishes comprised by 550 and more families that their average Sunday congregation is now down to 70, as some parish officials have said. Even on Great Friday Evening and also the Resurrection Service there are empty pews in many churches.

    Below is the list of Parishes and their financial requirements for the 2016 in Parish City State Allocation:

    St. Constantine & Helen Andover, MA $49,700

    St. Athanasius The Greek Orthodox Church Arlington, MA $58,800

    St. George Greek Orthodox Church Bangor, ME $5,000

    Hellenic Association of Boston Brookline, MA $70,800

    St. John The Baptist Boston, MA $23,850

    St. Catherine G.O. Church Braintree, MA $52,900

    Annunciation Greek Orthodox Church Brockton, MA $53,600

    Dormition of The Mother of God Church Burlington, VT $8,000

    Hellenic Orthodox Community Church Cambridge, MA $20,400

    St. George G.O. Church of Cape Cod Centerville, MA $46,920

    Saint Constantine & Helen G.O. Church . Chicopee, MA $3,600

    St. Nicholas Greek Orthodox Church Clinton, MA $3,600

    Panagia Greek Orthodox Church Cohasset, MA $12,500

    Holy Trinity Church Concord, NH $24,840

    The Annunciation Church of Cranston Cranston, RI $57,000

    Holy Trinity Greek Orthodox Church Danielson, CT $7,500

    St. George Greek Orthodox Church Dartmouth, MA $10,800

    Annunciation Greek Orthodox Church Dover, NH $36,000

    Assumption of the Virgin Mary G.O. Church Dracut, MA $17,000

    Greek Orthodox Church of St. Luke E. Longmeadow, MA $39,000

    St. Demetrios Greek Orthodox Church Fall River, MA $12,000

    Holy Trinity Greek Orthodox Church Fitchburg, MA $16,000

    Holy Apostles Saints Peter & Paul Haverhill, MA $32,200

    Holy Trinity Church Holyoke, MA $10,200

    The Assumption of Virgin Mary G.O. Church Ipswich, MA $39,300

    St. George Greek Orthodox Church Keene, NH $12,700

    Taxiarchai Greek Orthodox Church Laconia, NH $5,400

    Holy Trinity Greek Orthodox Church Lewiston, ME $16,250

    St. Nicholas Greek Orthodox Church Lexington, MA $33,600

    Holy Trinity Hellenic Orthodox Church (Day Lowell, MA $49,800

    St. George Church Lowell, MA $8,000

    Transfiguration Greek Orthodox Church Lowell, MA $34,800

    St. George G.O. Community Lynn, MA $65,000

    St.Anargyroi Marlboro, MA 21,000

    Assumption Greek Orthodox Church Manchester, NH 31,200

    St. George Greek Orthodox Cathedral Manchester, NH 63,350

    St. Nicholas Greek Orthodox Church Manchester, NH 7,400

    St. Gregory The Theolgian G.O. Church Mansfield, MA 25,200

    St. Phillip Greek Orthodox Church Nashua, NH 39,600

    St. Sophia Hellenic Orthodox Church New London, CT 49,000

    Annunciation Greek Orthodox Church Newburyport, MA 18,000

    St. Vasilios Greek Orthodox Church Newport, NH 3,600

    St. Spyridon Greek Orthodox Cathedral Newport, RI 23,200

    Holy Trinity Greek Orthodox Church Norwich, CT 21,720

    Assumption Greek Orthodox Church Pawtucket, RI 28,800

    St. Vasillos Greek Orthodox Church Peabody, MA 73,680

    St. George Greek Orthodox Church Pittsfield, MA 15,600

    Holy Trinity Church Portland, ME 32,400

    St. Nicholas Greek Orthodox Church Portsmouth, NH 32,400

    St. Nectarios Greek Orthodox Church Roslindale, MA 37,900

    St. Nicholas Orthodox Church Rutland, VT 0

    St. Demetrios Greek Orthodox Church Saco, ME 31,800

    Dormition of The Virgin Mary Somersworth, NH 3,000

    Dormition of The Virgin Mary Somerville, MA 39,600

    St. George Southbridge, MA 6,000

    St. George Greek Orthodox Church Springfield, MA 54,600

    Taxiarchae Archangels Greek Orthodox Church Watertown, MA 74,800

    Sts. Constantine & Helen Greek Orthodox Church Webster, MA 26,400

    St. Demetrios Greek Orthodox Church Weston, MA 100,000

    Annunciation of the Virgin Mary G.O. Church Woburn, MA 28,440

    St. Spyridon Greek Orthodox Cathedral Worcester, MA 83,400

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