Meeting between Greek PM Mitsotakis, Archbishop of Athens Ieronymos on Fri.
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Swearing in of the new members of the government to the President of the Hellenic Republic, Katerina Sakellaropoulou, and the presence of Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis at the Presidential Mansion following a reshuffle in Athens, Greece on January 5, 2021. The swearing in of the new ministers and deputy ministers took place in three groups, due to the restrictive measures to prevent the spread of the COVID-19 pandemic. / Ορκωμοσία των νέων μελών της κυβέρνησης ενώπιον της Προέδρου της Δημοκρατίας Κατερίνας Σακελλαροπούλου και παρουσία του πρωθυπουργού Κυριάκου Μητσοτάκη, στο Προεδρικό Μέγαρο, έπειτα από ανασχηματισμό, Αθήνα, Ελλάδα, 5 Ιανουαρίου 2021. Η ορκωμοσία των νέων υπουργών και υφυπουργών πραγματοποιήθηκε σε τρεις ομάδες, λόγω των περιοριστικών μέτρων για την ανακοπή εξάπλωσης της πανδημίας του κορωνοϊού (COVID-19).
Greek Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis on Friday morning received the Archbishop of Athens and All Greece, His Beatitude Ieronymos, at the former’s Maximos Mansion office in central Athens.
According to reports by the Orthodoxia news agency, both sides discussed the agenda for Monday’s extraordinary session of the Holy Synod of the Autocephalous Orthodox Church of Greece, in which Mitsotakis will also be present.
The first-ever presence of a Greek prime minister at a Holy Synod session has been described as “historic”.
Besides the course of the ongoing pandemic in the country, talks also reportedly revolved around Church-state relations in Greece.
Education and Religious Affairs Minister Niki Kerameos also participated at Friday’s meeting.
