The Archdiocese of Athens strenuously denies the rumors that Archbishop Ieronymos of Athens is facing a health problem.
According to an announcement by the Archdiocese of Athens’ Press Office Director, Charis Konidaris, Archbishop Ieronymos is perfectly healthy.
In response to the rumors, he emphasizes that “self-ridicule also has its limits”.
Read the announcement of the press office director of the Holy Archdiocese of Athens
“For the information to all those who, obviously serving their personal expediencies, circulate on the Internet supposed ‘information’ about the health of Archbishop Ieronymos, we inform them that His Beatitude is perfectly healthy so that they do not… anxiously or… unjustifiably worry.
In fact, we invite them to the Synodal Mansion on Monday to find out for themselves the truth, which they intentionally and fraudulently falsify.
We inform them since they invoke non-existent sources of the Archdiocese or even go so far as to talk about an extraordinary visit of the Archbishop abroad, even with a military aircraft for medical reasons, that self-ridicule has its limits…”