Archbishopric of Athens

A memorial service was held on Wednesday at the site of the railway crash in Tempe, central Greece, to honor the 57 individuals who lost their lives on February 28, 2023. Relatives and friends gathered to pay their respects, leaving flowers at the scene as they called for justice.

Anthimos, the senior Greek Orthodox cleric in Thessaloniki in northern Greece, has tendered his resignation as conveyed through an official announcement on Tuesday. 

According to the announcement, the 88-year-old Bishop Anthimos formally submitted his resignation to Archbishop of Athens and All Greece Ieronymos on Monday. 

Three fragments of the Athens Parthenon, hosted for centuries in the Vatican collections and museums, will be returned to Greece after the Greek Minister of Culture, Lina Mendoni, signed the donation protocol in Rome on March Tuesday.

Yesterday, Sunday, December 5, the head of the Catholic Church met with the head of the Greek Orthodox Church, Archbishop of Athens, Ieronymos II, in the Athens Archdiocese.

Possessing all the wisdom of the institution he represents, with his finger on the pulse of society and displaying a surprisingly open mind for a man of his years, Archbishop of Athens and All Greece Ieronymos is always a fascinating interlocutor.

Apostoli (Greek for Mission), the philanthropic organization of the Archdiocese of Athens under the Church of Greece, will be distributing food and medical supplies to 10,000 families in need, it has been announced.
"In these holy, but also difficult, days that we are all going through, we must not forget our fellow men, those who need a helping hand," Archbishop Ieronymos said.

Archbishop Ieronymos blessed thousands of parcels containing food and basic necessities that were distributed on Tuesday by the Archdiocese of Athens to people in need.

The parcels were given to about 10,000 families, following an initiative of the General Philoptochos Fund and the Apostoli charity of the Archdiocese of Athens.

In a bid to bury a hatchet of sorts, Greek Archbishop Ieronymos will welcome Istanbul-based Ecumenical Patriarch Vartholomaios in Greece on May 23.

It will be the first meeting between the two church leaders after a long period during which they were reportedly not on speaking terms.

Archbishop Ieronymos on Friday assured clerics of the Greek Orthodox Church that an agreement for the separation of church and state that is currently under discussion will safeguard their rights.

In the second day of his official visit to Greece, the Prince of Wales met with Archbishop Ieronymos II at the Archbishopric of Athens on Thursday, to discuss charity work.