Archbishop Ieronymos

Athens Archbishop Ieronymos addressed Greek Parliamentary Speaker Nikos Voutsis on Monday during the blessing ceremony at the start of the national assembly's opening session. "Our houses are burning and we are singing, our ship is sinking and sinking for...

Independent Greeks (ANEL) leader Panos Kammenos, a junior coalition partner with the Radical Left Coalition (SYRIZA) government, met with Archbishop Ieronymos on Wednesday. During their meeting, Kammenos said that any changes to the religious lesson on the syllabus will...

Education Minister Nikos Filis on Monday took back his accusations against the Church of Greece for its role during the German occupation and the dictatorship. The changes in religion classes in Greek schools have generated a squabble between Filis and...

Greece's Education Minister Nikos Filis said that he is not backing down on his decision to change religious study courses in Greek schools because he has the support of Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras. The changes in religion courses are becoming...

Earlier this week Education Minister Nikos Filis stated that religious classes in public schools should be taught in a context of a religious studies course, rather than basing teachings on catechism. On Friday the leader of the junior coalition partner,...

Archbishop Ieronymos of Athens and All Greece called the new changes in religion classes in Greek schools "unacceptable and dangerous," refueling the confrontation with Education Minister Nikos Filis. Under the changes implemented, the lessons on religion in Greek elementary, junior...

Athens Archbishop Ieronymos told the Pan-Thracian Committee that Greece is being "blackmailed by its creditors." He described Greece as being water boarded. "They are drowning us, they are leading us to asphyxiation, until they achieve full surrender," he said....

An official ceremony took place on Saturday evening at the Athens Cathedral to celebrate its reopening after seven years of restoration. The reopening ceremony was attended, among other officials, by the President of the Hellenic Republic Prokopis Pavlopoulos, Minister of...

Greek Orthodox Ecumenical Patriarch Bartholomew closed the matter of church jurisdiction during the Holy Synod of the Orthodox Church on the island of Crete. In the framework of an examination on church autonomy, Patriarch Bartholomew conclusively underlined that the...

Located in Mastichochoria in Southern Chios, the Chios Mastic Museum sponsored by the Cultural Department of Piraeus Bank, opened its doors to the public on June 11th. The museum aims to educate the public on the production history, cultivation, and processing of...