St. Spyridon Church

The government has asked for a prosecutor to press charges against two priests who provided communion to the faithful Sunday despite a ban on church attendance.

One of the priests, in the Athens neighborhood of Koukaki, was photographed from a nearby building secretly giving communion to people through the back door.

Ethel Bouzalas, the lover of a high ranking Greek Orthodox priest George Passias, has been accused of stealing $100,000 from the church and hiding it in a secret fund.

Father George Passias, aged 67, was forced to resign after kinky sex tapes were revealed. The married Greek Orthodox priest had for years denied involvement with 45-year-old Ethel Bouzalas, his married lover and much younger parish-school principal.