Archbishop Ieronymos of Athens and all Greece made a statement for the Athens News Agency (ANA) regarding the decision of the President of Turkey, Recep Tayyip Erdogan, to turn Hagia Sophia into a mosque.
The Archbishop of Athens stated that “the instrumentalization of religion for the pursuit of party political, geopolitical and geostrategic expediencies characterizes the one who attempts it.
It is an insult and affront not only to the Orthodoxy and Christianity, in general, but also to all civilized humakind, to every thinking person regardless of religion. It is hard for thee to kick against the pricks.”