Church of Greece

His Beatitude Ieronymos

According to the book “Acts of Apostles”, Chapter 17, 16-34, St. Apostle Paul established the Church of Greece in the year 50. The first appointed bishop of Athens was St. Dionysius the Areopagit. In 1850, after the liberation from the Turks, the Ecumenical Patriarchate recognized the Church of Greece as an independent church, apart from the Mount Athos, the island of Crete and Dodecanese islands that remained under the jurisdiction of Ecumenical Patriarchate. Today, the Archbishop of Athens and all Greece is Ieronymos appointed on  February 2008. The Church of Greece has 92 bishops and 9000 priests.