Minister for National Education and Religious Affairs, Marietta Giannakou, ordered the ministry to investigate whether the decision by the school's teachers' council was legal, and the girl and her mother were received by Archbishop Christodoulos of Athens, with the latter citing the Church's solidarity towards the family.
He also spoke out strongly against the intention of the Greek government under Costas Simitis to follow EU directives, especially where they clashed with what he regarded as traditional Greek policies.
Athens | Archbishop of Canterbury | Archbishop | Archbishop of York | Athens, Georgia | archbishop | Archbishop of Dublin | National Technical University of Athens | Archbishop of Cashel | Athens, Ohio | Archbishop of Glasgow | Archbishop of Armagh | Archbishop of Cologne | Acropolis of Athens | Archbishop of Tuam | The Archbishop Lanfranc School | National and Kapodistrian University of Athens | British School at Athens | Archbishop of Santiago | Temple of Olympian Zeus (Athens) | Athens University of Economics and Business | Athens, Pennsylvania | Athens International Airport | Athens Festival | Athenagoras of Athens | Archbishop of Uppsala | Archbishop of Melbourne | Archbishop of Dublin (Roman Catholic) | William Temple (archbishop) | Joscius, Archbishop of Tyre |