Ieronymos II of Athens
PM Mitsotakis: Attended the Holy Thursday service at the Metropolis of Athens - Warm handshake with Archbishop Ieronymos
"We are here to celebrate, we find everything else," Archbishop Ieronymos said earlier - It is the Prime Minister's first presence at the Metropolis since the Mass for the New Year
Keeping the zealots at bay
Archbishop Ieronymos, the leader of the Orthodox Church of Greece, swiftly recognized the potential danger: Over the Easter holiday, churches across the country could become arenas for disapproval and harassment, potentially escalating beyond control.
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Rift with Church largely bridged
The statements on Friday by Archbishop Ieronymos and Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis, during a joint visit to facilities of the Archdiocese of Athens in Dilesi, Viotia, Central Greece, demonstrated in the most emphatic way that the rift in relations between the Church and the government over the legislation on same-sex marriage has been largely bridged.
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Ieronymos denounces nationalist leader’s warnings against ND MPs
Archbishop Ieronymos, the leader of the influential Orthodox Church of Greece, on Friday denounced threats made by a nationalist party leader against deputies of the ruling New Democracy party.
Mitsotakis: Tomorrow the joint visit with Archbishop Ieronymos to Dilesi - "Time to restore the crisis"
With a desire for mutual rapprochement between Church and State, Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis and Archbishop Ieronymos are to visit tomorrow, together, the structures of the Archdiocese in Delesi, Biotia
Archbishop Ieronymos condemns the attacks on politicians on the occasion of same-sex marriage: The Church does not take revenge
The Church loves but does not leave its positions, Ieronymos added
Archbishop orders inquiry into rant against lawmaker
Amid the backlash from some clerics over Parliament's recent ratification of a bill legalizing same-sex marriage, Archbishop Ieronymos ordered an ecclesiastical inquiry on Tuesday concerning the archimandrite of the Holy Archdiocese of Athens, Father Seraphim Dimitriou, over his recent behavior toward a socialist MP.
Church-state tension looms over gay marriage
More tension looms between Church and state over the bill for same-sex civil marriage and adoption by such couples which Parliament recently passed, after Greek Archbishop Ieronymos reportedly expressed dismay with Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis' speech during the House debate on the legislation.
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The archbishop and the separation of church and state
Archbishop Ieronymos, the leader of the Orthodox Church of Greece, supposedly took a relatively soft stance on the issue of same-sex marriage.
Church head’s balancing act on same-sex marriage
The recent unanimous rejection by the influential Greek Church's governing Holy Synod of government plans to legalize same-sex marriage is perceived as a success for Archbishop Ieronymos in navigating the perennial antagonism between the more modernizing and conservative, at times obscurantist, factions within the Hierarchy.
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