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Ministry of Culture and Sports (Greece)

Ministry of Culture and Sports (Greece)

**Hellenic RepublicMinistry of Culture and Sports**
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Established:1971

The Ministry of Culture and Sports (Greek: Υπουργείο Πολιτισμού και Αθλητισμού) is the government department of Greece entrusted with preserving the country's cultural heritage, promoting the arts, and overseeing sport through the subordinate General Secretariat for Sports. The incumbent minister is Lina Mendoni. The Deputy Minister for Sports is Lefteris Avgenakis.

History

This ministry was established in 1971 as the Ministry of Culture and Science (Ὑπουργεῖον Πολιτισμοῦ καὶ Ἐπιστημῶν) and it was renamed the Ministry of Culture (Υπουργείο Πολιτισμού) on 26 July 1985. On 7 October 2009, it was merged with the Ministry of Touristic Development to form the Ministry of Culture and Tourism (Υπουργείο Πολιτισμού και Τουρισμού). It ceased to exist on 21 June 2012, when the Ministry of Tourism was re-established and the culture portfolio was absorbed by the Ministry of Education, Lifelong Learning and Religious Affairs to form the Ministry of Education, Religious Affairs, Culture and Sports. The Ministry of Culture and Sports was re-established on 25 June 2013. On 27 January 2015, it was again merged with the education ministry to form the Ministry of Culture, Education and Religious Affairs. On 23 September 2015, the culture and education portfolios were restored as separate ministries.

List of Ministers for Culture and Science (1971–1985)

NameTook OfficeLeft OfficeParty
Konstantinos Panagiotakis26 August 197125 November 1973
Dimitrios Tsakonas25 November 197324 July 1974
Konstantinos Tsatsos24 July 19749 October 1974National Radical Union
Ioannis Michail Panagiotopoulos9 October 197421 November 1974
Konstantinos Trypanis21 November 197428 November 1977New Democracy
Georgios Plytas28 November 197725 September 1978New Democracy
Demetrios Nianias25 September 197810 May 1980New Democracy
Andreas Andrianopoulos10 May 198021 October 1981New Democracy
Melina Mercouri21 October 198126 July 1985Panhellenic Socialist Movement

List of Ministers for Culture (1985–2009)

NameTook OfficeLeft OfficeParty
Melina Mercouri26 July 19852 July 1989Panhellenic Socialist Movement
Anna Psarouda-Benaki (first term)2 July 19897 July 1989New Democracy
Georgios Mylonas (first term)7 July 198923 November 1989New Democracy
Sotiris Kouvelas23 November 198913 February 1990New Democracy
Georgios Mylonas (second term)13 February 199011 April 1990New Democracy
Tzannis Tzannetakis11 April 19908 August 1991New Democracy
Anna Psarouda-Benaki (second term)8 August 19913 December 1992New Democracy
Dora Bakoyanni7 December 199213 October 1993New Democracy
Melina Mercouri (second term)13 October 19936 March 1994 (death in office)Panhellenic Socialist Movement
Thanos Mikroutsikos16 March 1994 (acting minister from 6 March)22 January 1996Panhellenic Socialist Movement
Stavros Benos22 January 199625 September 1996Panhellenic Socialist Movement
Evangelos Venizelos (first term)25 September 199619 February 1999Panhellenic Socialist Movement
Elisavet Papazoi19 February 199913 April 2000Panhellenic Socialist Movement
Theodoros Pangalos13 April 200020 November 2000Panhellenic Socialist Movement
Evangelos Venizelos (second term)20 November 200010 March 2004Panhellenic Socialist Movement
Kostas Karamanlis10 March 200415 February 2006New Democracy
Georgios Voulgarakis15 February 200619 September 2007New Democracy
Michalis Liapis19 September 20077 January 2009New Democracy
Antonis Samaras8 January 20097 October 2009New Democracy

List of Ministers for Culture and Tourism (2009–2012)

NameTook OfficeLeft OfficeParty
Pavlos Geroulanos7 October 200917 May 2012Panhellenic Socialist Movement
Tatiana Karapanagioti17 May 201221 June 2012caretaker government

List of Ministers for Education, Religious Affairs, Culture and Sports (2012–2013)

NameTook OfficeLeft OfficeParty
Konstantinos Arvanitopoulos21 June 201225 June 2013New Democracy

List of Ministers for Culture and Sports (2013–2015)

NameTook OfficeLeft OfficeParty
Panos Panagiotopoulos25 June 201310 June 2014New Democracy
Konstantinos Tasoulas10 June 201427 January 2015New Democracy

List of Ministers for Culture and Sports (since September 2015)

NameTook OfficeLeft OfficeParty
Aristides Baltas23 September 20155 November 2016SYRIZA
Lydia Koniordou5 November 201629 August 2018SYRIZA
Myrsini Zorba29 August 20189 July 2019SYRIZA
Lina Mendoni9 July 2019IncumbentIndependent in the Cabinet of Kyriakos Mitsotakis

References

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Citation Linkwww.culture.grMinistry of Culture and Sports
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Citation Linkwww.kolumbus.fiLar's website
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Citation Linkwww.culture.grMinistry of Culture and Sports
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Citation Linkwww.kolumbus.fiLar's website
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