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March 13, 2003
Contact: Nikki Stephanopoulos

ARCHBISHOP DEMETRIOS ELECTED MEMBER OF THE ACADEMY OF ATHENS

NEW YORK - The Academy of Athens officially announced today, during a
plenary session under the chairmanship of its president Professor Gregorios
Skalkeas, the election of His Eminence Archbishop Demetrios of America "as
an abroad-residing member of the Academy of Athens in the Discipline of
Theology in the areas of Ethics and Political Sciences."  The Academy of
Athens is the preeminent intellectual institution of Greece.

The unanimous election was held during the November 28, 2002 plenary
session of the Academy of Athens and was ratified by a Presidential Decree
of the President of the Hellenic Republic, which was published in the
official Government Gazette (no. 29) of February 12, 2003.

His Eminence Archbishop Demetrios of America, in a letter of gratitude to
Professor Gregorios Skalkeas, stated:  "I express my deepest gratitude to
the distinguished and erudite members of the Academy of Athens for the
truly great honor bestowed upon me, an honor which is symbolically extended
to all Greek scholars residing abroad, who through their work project
internationally the timelessness and universality of our Hellenic cultural
heritage and the Orthodox faith.

My induction into the Academy of Athens, the leading intellectual
institution of Greece, the Center of intensive cultivation and advancement
of the Sciences, the Letters and the Arts, is not an ordinary distinction;
it constitutes not only a great honor but emphasizes also the tremendous
responsibility in responding to the intellectual challenges emanating from
such an election and induction in this auspicious and historical Center of
Paideia, Science and Culture. I wholeheartedly invoke the blessing of God
upon the great offering and mission of the Academy of Athens both within
and beyond the boundaries of Greece."
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