He appealed to the Patriarch of Alexandria, who ordained him in Kenya. “What am I offering the world for Christ?” His restlessness, as well as tension with the local bishop over Adamopoulos’ view that services should be run in English, left him feeling that Australia was no longer the right fit. “Here I am giving lectures in the Coptic language,” he thought. ” LSD, I ask? “One or two trips,” he says.ĭeep in academia and religious celibacy, yet dogged by his hedonistic past, he learned of Mother Teresa’s work in India. “One is the demonstrating in the streets, the uniform you wore – jeans, T-shirt with Hendrix, particularly Che Guevara, or Ho Chi Minh, and a beret … we smoked marijuana, we smoked hash,” he says. “The hippie culture of the time – being a revolutionary, there were certain things that were normal for you,” he says. Tell me more about the drugs? Adamopoulos urges me to consider the subject in context.
I was a Jesus person, not a church person.” He came closest to identifying with the immigrant churches, such as the Greek Orthodox Church, which ministered to the poor, the working class and the downtrodden, even though it did so in ancient Greek. “The Anglican Church with its elitist schools and elitist colleges. “Boring churches, away from social action … there was nothing revolutionary,” he says. The Christ he had discovered was different from the one worshipped in churches across 1960s and 70s suburban Melbourne. “I started selling whatever I had, and giving it to the poor,” he says. But instead of stepping up to the social status his parents had hoped and sacrificed for, he began offloading his possessions and even his job, swapping his academic path for a role teaching students in an underprivileged public school. He had blitzed university and was being hailed as a future professor. Credit:Louie DouvisĪdamopoulos took the scriptures seriously. The prawns make Adamopoulos uncomfortable. We did television shows with Olivia Newton-John.” “We were the first long hair group in Melbourne,” he says. They won a competition for being most like the Beatles, and became the resident band at a rock restaurant run by concert promoter Garry Spry. Adamopoulos already played the guitar, so when Beatlemania hit Australia, he formed a band with Ronnie Burns and two other musicians. “Really, I became Aussie,” he says in his thick accent, “to the point of becoming ashamed of being the son of an immigrant.” He was multilingual – he spoke French, English and Greek – but didn’t let it show.
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But Adamopoulos adapted quickly by figuring out how to appear less foreign. “The social decline of my parents was unbelievable,” he says. His father, an industrial chemist, and his mother, a headmistress, became factory workers. It was a difficult adjustment for his parents.
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