On 13 June 2020, His Excellency Kyriakos Mitsotakis, Prime Minister of Greece,paid a courtesy call on the Most Reverend Epiphanios, Metropolitan of Thira,Amorgos and Nisoi at the Metropolis headquarters on the island of Santorini.Mr.Mitsotakis, with two Ministerial staff,had come to Santorini to inaugurate the tourist season.*
His Eminence welcomed the Prime Minister ,thanking him for the official visit and for his struggle to deal with the COVID-19 pandemic.They discussed social and ecclesiastical issues, and Mr.Mitsotakis expressed his pleasure at meeting one of the worthiest hierarchs of the Church of Greece, the seventh archpastor.
For his part, Metropolitan Epiphanios presented the Prime Minister with an icon of the Saviour with a prayer to bless and strengthen him in the arduous task of governing the fatherland.*
The Metropolis contains several of the Cyclades islands of the Southern Aegean.It has two each of male and female monasteries.*
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