Religious oath for new Greek PM, members of Cabinet

Members of the new Mitsotakis government, all 51 ministers, alternate and deputy ministers, as well as a sole vice-president, were sworn-in at noon local time at the presidential mansion in central Athens, with PM Kyriakos Mitsotakis and Greek President Prokopis Pavlopoulos on hand.

The new Cabinet members swore a religious oath administered by Archbishop of Athens and All Greece, His Beatitude Ieronymos, similar to Mitsotakis in the same chamber a day earlier.

After the brief and nationally televised ceremony, the primate of the Church of Greece wished the new Cabinet members fortitude and success.

On Monday, Ieronymos was accompanied by the First Secretary of the Church of Greece’s Holy Synod, Archimandrite Filotheos.

“May God give you strength and patience, so your plans can be implemented,” Ieronymos told Mitsotakis.

The previous prime minister, Alexis Tsipras, gave a political oath during two swear-in ceremonies in
2015.

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