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Tom Wark

Writer pays for lies that 'humiliated' church leader

Archbishop Makarios Griniezakis has been awarded $300,000 from a journalist who defamed him. (Dylan Coker/AAP PHOTOS)

False accusations about the leader of the Greek Orthodox Church in Australia have cost a journalist more than $300,000.

Alkis Morelas was found on Friday to have defamed Archbishop Makarios Griniezakis in four online articles he wrote for a Greek-language website called Greek Flash News.

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