The Ministry of Education, Religious Affairs and Sports () is a government department of Greece. One of the oldest ministries, established in 1833, it is responsible for running the country's education system and for supervising the religions in Greece.
History Years Name 1833-1862 1862–1926 Ministry of Religious Affairs and Public Education 1926–1949 Ministry of Religious Affairs and Education 1949–1955 Ministry of Religious Affairs and National Education 1955–2009 Ministry of National Education and Religious Affairs 2009–2012 Ministry of Education, Lifelong Learning and Religious Affairs 2012–2013 Ministry of Education, Religious Affairs, Culture and Sport 2013–2015 Ministry of Education and Religious Affairs January–September 2015 Ministry of Culture, Education and Religious Affairs2015–2019 Ministry of Education, Research and Religious Affairs2019–2023 Ministry of Education and Religious Affairs2023 - Ministry of Education, Religious Affairs and Sports
List of ministers National education and religious affairs (1981–2009) Name Took officeLeft office PartyEleftherios Veryvakis21 October 19815 July 1982 PASOKApostolos Kaklamanis5 July 198225 April 1986Antonis Tritsis25 April 19869 May 1988Apostolos Kaklamanis9 May 198822 June 1988George Papandreou22 June 19882 July 19892 July 198912 October 1989New DemocracyKonstantinos Despotopoulos12 October 198923 November 1989IndependentCostas Simitis23 November 198913 February 1990PASOKKonstantinos Despotopoulos13 February 199011 April 1990Independent Vasilis Kontogiannopoulos11 April 199010 January 1991New DemocracyGeorgios Souflias10 January 199113 October 199313 October 19938 July 1994George Papandreou8 July 199425 September 1996PASOKGerasimos Arsenis25 September 199613 April 2000Petros Efthymiou13 April 200010 March 2004Marietta Giannakou10 March 200419 September 2007New DemocracyEvripidis Stylianidis19 September 20078 January 2009Aris Spiliotopoulos8 January 20097 October 2009
Education, lifelong learning and religious affairs (2009–2012) NameTook officeLeft officePartyNotesAnna Diamantopoulou7 October 20097 March 2012PASOKGeorgios Babiniotis7 March 201217 May 2012IndependentNational unity governmentFrosso Kiaou17 May 201221 June 2012IndependentCaretaker government
Education, religious affairs, culture and sport (2012–2013) NameTook officeLeft officePartyNotes21 June 201225 June 2013New DemocracyCoalition government
Education and religious affairs (2013–2015) NameTook officeLeft officePartyNotesKonstantinos Arvanitopoulos25 June 201310 June 2014New DemocracyCoalition governmentAndreas Loverdos10 June 201427 January 2015PASOKCoalition government
Culture, education and religious affairs (2015) NameTook officeLeft officePartyNotesAristides Baltas27 January 201527 August 2015SyrizaCoalition governmentFrosso Kiaou28 August 201521 September 2015IndependentCaretaker government
Education, research and religious affairs (2015–2019) NameTook officeLeft officePartyNotesNikos Filis23 September 20155 November 2016SyrizaCoalition government5 November 20169 July 2019SyrizaCoalition government
Education and religious affairs (2019–2023) NameTook officeLeft officePartyNotesNiki Kerameus9 July 201926 May 2023New DemocracyCabinet of Kyriakos MitsotakisChristos Kittas26 May 202326 June 2023IndependentCaretaker Cabinet of Ioannis Sarmas
Education, religious affairs and sports (2023–present) NameTook officeLeft officePartyNotesKyriakos Pierrakakis26 May 202315 March 2025New DemocracySecond Cabinet of Kyriakos MitsotakisSofia Zacharaki15 March 2025New DemocracySecond Cabinet of Kyriakos Mitsotakis
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