Greece’s Supreme Court handed down a “Solomon-like” judgment over the recent period as justices of one of the high court’s sections decided on the …name of a nearly six-year-old girl whose divorced parents engaged in a protracted legal battle over the very issue.

The high court also decided where the first-grader will be baptized, another acrimonious “bone of contention” between the father, a litigious lawyer – judging by the number of extrajudicial notices and legal challenges he filed in the case – and the mother, a lower court justice who previously served on a Dodecanese Island.

Details involving names and places of origins were not disclosed.

The couple, which met on the same Dodecanese Island in 2019, married the following year and soon welcomed the birth of their daughter in September 2020, separated in January 2021 and subsequently sought a divorce. The hearing witnessed a “custody battle” and disagreements over child support, with first instance court finally giving custody to the mother, who now lives in Athens, and ordering the father pay monthly support of 430 euros.

The Chapel of the Panagia Kapnikarea (Our Lady of the Kapnikarea) in central Athens

Supreme Court justices also overturned a lower court’s decision that the child’s baptism into the Greek Orthodox Church will take place at a cathedral on the island of Symi, rather, the historic Chapel of the Panagia Kapnikarea (Our Lady of the Kapnikarea) in central Athens was selected.

For the record, justices picked a name that starts with the letter “M” and whose feast day is on Sept. 16 as based on the Orthodox ecclesiastical calendar – and the child’s birthday.