{"id":2656,"date":"2025-01-26T17:38:52","date_gmt":"2025-01-26T17:38:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/in-greece.com\/index.php\/2025\/01\/26\/mitsotakis-attends-memorial-service-for-late-archbishop-anastasios-in-athens\/"},"modified":"2025-01-26T17:38:52","modified_gmt":"2025-01-26T17:38:52","slug":"mitsotakis-attends-memorial-service-for-late-archbishop-anastasios-in-athens","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/in-greece.com\/index.php\/2025\/01\/26\/mitsotakis-attends-memorial-service-for-late-archbishop-anastasios-in-athens\/","title":{"rendered":"Mitsotakis attends memorial service for late Archbishop Anastasios in Athens"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div id=\"post-1259805\">\n    <!-- .entry-header --><\/p>\n<div class=\"first-img article_thumbnail_wrapper\" itemscope=\"\" itemprop=\"associatedMedia\" itemtype=\"http:\/\/schema.org\/ImageObject\">\n                                                                    <picture><source media=\"(max-width: 767px)\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.ekathimerini.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/Anastasios_Mitropoli_Mitsotakis_Intime_1-320x200.jpg?v=1737900556\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"960\" height=\"600\" class=\"picture-main-block-image\" data-nxsrc=\"https:\/\/www.ekathimerini.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/Anastasios_Mitropoli_Mitsotakis_Intime_1.jpg?v=1737900555\" alt=\"Mitsotakis attends memorial service for late Archbishop Anastasios in Athens\" src=\"https:\/\/www.ekathimerini.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/Anastasios_Mitropoli_Mitsotakis_Intime_1-960x600.jpg?v=1737900556\"\/><br \/>\n                        <\/source><\/picture>\n<p>Mitsotakis pays respects by kissing the casket of Archbishop Anastasios [InTimeNews]<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<div class=\"entry-content\" itemprop=\"articleBody\">\n<p>Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis attended the memorial service at the Holy Metropolitan Cathedral of Athens, on Sunday led by Archbishop Ieronymos, in honor of the late Archbishop Anastasios of Tirana, Durres and All Albania, who passed away on Saturday at the age of 95.<\/p>\n<p>Also present at the service were President of the Hellenic Republic Katerina Sakellaropoulou, Speaker of Parliament Nikitas Kaklamanis, leader of the main opposition Nikos Androulakis, Minister of Education and Religious Affairs Kyriakos Pierrakakis, MEP Freddy Beleris, and other high-ranking officials.<\/p>\n<p>According to reports, Archbishop Anastasios\u2019s body will lie in state at the cathedral until the early hours of Monday morning, after which it will be transported to Tirana. There, the body will lie in state, ahead of the funeral service scheduled for Thursday.<\/p>\n<p>Albania has declared a five-day period of mourning for the 95-year-old hierarch, who served as the spiritual leader of the country\u2019s Greek-Orthodox community for over three decades.<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p><!-- .entry-content --><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><script>\n        var NXFBPixelFunc = function () {\n            document.removeEventListener(\"scroll\", NXFBPixelFunc);\n            setTimeout(function () {\n                !function (f, b, e, v, n, t, s) {\n                    if (f.fbq) return;\n                    n = f.fbq = function () {\n                        n.callMethod ?\n                            n.callMethod.apply(n, arguments) : n.queue.push(arguments)\n                    };\n                    if (!f._fbq) f._fbq = n;\n                    n.push = n;\n                    n.loaded = !0;\n                    n.version = '2.0';\n                    n.queue = [];\n                    t = b.createElement(e);\n                    t.async = !0;\n                    t.src = v;\n                    s = b.getElementsByTagName(e)[0];\n                    s.parentNode.insertBefore(t, s)\n                }(window, document, 'script',\n                    'https:\/\/connect.facebook.net\/en_US\/fbevents.js');\n                fbq('init', '109138906120213');\n                fbq('track', 'PageView');\n            }, 0)\n        };\n        document.addEventListener(\"scroll\", NXFBPixelFunc);\n    <\/script><br \/>\n<br \/><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.ekathimerini.com\/politics\/1259805\/mitsotakis-attends-memorial-service-for-late-archbishop-anastasios-in-athens\/\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Mitsotakis pays respects by kissing the casket of Archbishop Anastasios [InTimeNews] Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis attended the memorial service at the Holy Metropolitan Cathedral of Athens, on Sunday led by Archbishop Ieronymos, in honor of the late Archbishop Anastasios of Tirana, Durres and All Albania, who passed away on Saturday at the age of 95. &#8230; <\/p>\n<p class=\"read-more-container\"><a title=\"Mitsotakis attends memorial service for late Archbishop Anastasios in Athens\" class=\"read-more button\" href=\"https:\/\/in-greece.com\/index.php\/2025\/01\/26\/mitsotakis-attends-memorial-service-for-late-archbishop-anastasios-in-athens\/#more-2656\" aria-label=\"Read more about Mitsotakis attends memorial service for late Archbishop Anastasios in Athens\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2657,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"iawp_total_views":0,"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/www.ekathimerini.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/Anastasios_Mitropoli_Mitsotakis_Intime_1-960x600.jpg?v=1737900556","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2656","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","no-featured-image-padding"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/in-greece.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2656","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/in-greece.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/in-greece.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/in-greece.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/in-greece.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2656"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/in-greece.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2656\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/in-greece.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2657"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/in-greece.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2656"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/in-greece.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2656"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/in-greece.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2656"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}