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Ministry of Education, Religious Affairs and Sports (Greece)

Ministry of Education, Religious Affairs and Sports
Υπουργείο Παιδείας, Θρησκευμάτων και Αθλητισμού

Agency overview
Formed	27 June 2023
Preceding agency	Ministry of Education, Research and Religious Affairs
Jurisdiction	Government of Greece
Headquarters	Athens, Greece
Minister responsible	Kyriakos Pierrakakis, 27 June 2023
Website	www.minedu.gov.gr

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The Ministry of Education, Religious Affairs and Sports (Greek: Υπουργείο Παιδείας, Θρησκευμάτων και Αθλητισμού) is a government departmentofGreece. One of the oldest ministries, established in 1833, it is responsible for running the country's education system and for supervising the religions in Greece. The incumbent minister is Kyriakos Pierrakakis. Greece is one of the two countries that have not signed the Lisboa convention which has been ratified by all 47 member states of the Council of Europe in Strasbourg (2012).To this day, the independent department of professional recognition of academic degrees called ATEEN, still acts illegally against graduates of recognized open universities. In 2023, the Council of State published its decision against the ministry's actions of the discriminative non-recognition of degrees.

History[edit]

Current leadership[edit]

• Minister for Education and Religious Affairs: Kyriakos Pierrakakis
  • Alternate Minister Giannis Vroutsis
    • Deputy Minister Ioanna Lytrivi

List of ministers[edit]

National education and religious affairs (1981–2009)[edit]

Education, lifelong learning and religious affairs (2009–2012)[edit]

Education, religious affairs, culture and sport (2012–2013)[edit]

Education and religious affairs (2013–2015)[edit]

Culture, education and religious affairs (2015)[edit]

Education, research and religious affairs (2015–2019)[edit]

Education and religious affairs (2019–2023)[edit]

Education, religious affairs and sports (2023–present)[edit]

Deputy Ministers[edit]

• Alternate Minister John Oikonomou (until 2023)
• Domna Michaelides (until 2023)
• Zetta Makri [el] (2023 to 2024)

References[edit]

External links[edit]

• Ministry website