The President of SYRIZA-PS, Socrates Famellos, met today, Tuesday, February 11, 2025, with the Archbishop of Athens and All Greece, Mr. Hieronymos at the Hall of the Holy Archdiocese of Athens.

In detail the dialogue they had:

P. Famellos: For me it was both an obligation and a need to meet you with my new position as president of SYRIZA-PS and to hear you and discuss everything we need to work with, because society needs it.

Archbishop Hieronymus: I am very pleased with this, and it reminds me again that we had a very good discussion a few years ago with Mr Tsipras.

P. Famellos: And I think that the cooperation we had, the whole government, on the initiative of yours and the Prime Minister, Alexis Tsipras, at that time, was a very good start that shows a path worthy of exploiting, respecting, understanding and understanding and understanding. problem solving. Because you know, too, that there are really many issues that need to be resolved. The Church is asking for it, the state needs it. I think that also means progress. To make things and go ahead. With respect, with understanding, but also with a resolution mood. I want you to know that I want, and SYRIZA-PS wants, to make use of a basis that existed then, to consult and cooperate, to work, without exploiting party or politics, of this very serious relationship that the state must have with the Church and the Church and To show a spirit, but also an essential message to society that there is a way to progress, to have confidence and credibility and seriousness. Because, Blessed, and we have had this question within us, and all society has an anxiety lately that we need and we owe both the state and its institutions and the parties and the Church and all the places to convey a message and peace and solidarity and cooperation.

Archbishop Hieronymus: And I am given the opportunity to say that in the days of Mr Tsipras as prime minister, we were given the opportunity, we worked very much and for the most part resolved the issue of financial relations, always based on the payroll. Now for reasons we did not proceed, we proceeded later. But I would like to say, at this time when so many things are being said and discussed, and every so often the question of the Church and State relations are, and others say to break up, others to leave. Freely, of course, to hear things, but to see them closely. The view of the Church is that it is not afraid of separation. He is afraid of what will follow the separation. It is not something that scares us, but it should not even scare us and not find a way to talk to us.

P. Famellos: And to solve problems.

Archbishop Hieronymus: That’s why I think the time has come to find the solution to the coincidence or, if you want to say more round, find the way we can move together without conflict. And it is what our society needs today and especially our youth. Therefore, let’s say that we need a co -operation, a collaboration, at least to find it, but to find it. The others are to shout and argue.

P. Famellos: Blessed, we, and I personally, with seriousness, with respect, with love for solidarity but also for the message of the Church and the Left, allow me, for peace all over the world, we want to help with it. cooperation. To gain value and relationships of people, the functioning of society, and to have a prospect. World need is this need, you understand it, but in our country we have to find such common routes. My visit today wants to confirm both the sincere dialogue we have had in the past, but also the need with respect to work together to solve what society needs, and not what we want on the basis of personal aspirations. Far from me such reading personal aspirations.

Archbishop Hieronymus: I would like to tell you that the Archdiocese after a few days, within a month, makes a start, an effort, which I have told the members of the other parties when we meet, that we will inaugurate the first student roof of the church. In new contexts though. We will not make a 200 -seat student homes to become conflict and opposition centers. Our thinking is the ecclesiastical roofs as much as we can in the best way of our students to be 30, 40 seats, which we will oversee and try to facilitate the needs and call on the parties and the government and all work together to work together Such a way. And I would like to wish this way of cooperation to reign in the general climate.

P. Famellos: Blessed, I would like to congratulate you on the initiative of student housing. The housing deficit is one of the main concerns of a new family, and families studying children. Our view is that there must be an initiative of the State for the House, either the student or the social and the labor. It is also an element of European culture to have a policy on the roof. In the case of the Church, it would be a very good possibility that the state’s support for initiatives and moves to exploit the ecclesiastical property on the issue of student housing, which, as you said, is already the initiative of the Church and the Archdiocese, so as to solve it. A problem that, to tell you very simply, as the people feel, you cannot easily study a child when you have to pay the cost of student housing. We also want families to prosper and the children to study. We share it. I think we should also help the state to support the functioning of the student housing and in common action with the Church. It’s a very good initiative.

The president of SYRIZA-PS was accompanied by East Attica MP and party spokesman George Karameros.