Archbishop

Archbishop Ieronymos II of Athens, the head of the Church of Greece, praised U.S. President Donald Trump in an interview with far-right US news site Breitbart.

Truth can only go hand in hand with love. Humans deserve to stand upright and always defend the truth. No theory or ideology can undermine the truth’s role as a guiding principle, a moral compass, a value, a source of exaltation, and a catalyst for liberation. Truth can only go hand in hand with love. […]

His Eminence Archbishop Elpidophoros of America was once considered a model hierarch: mild-mannered, cosmopolitan, progressive, open-minded, the spiritual descendant of Ecumenical Patriarch Bartholomew. But then shadows began to appear, certain reservations and an inexplicable climate of distrust. On the occasion of his visit to Athens, I asked if we could meet to get some answers to my questions.