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. The incumbent minister is Kyriakos Pierrakakis. Greece is one of the two countries that have not signed the Lisboa convention which has been ratified by all 47 member states of the Council of Europe in Strasbourg (2012).To this day, the independent department of professional recognition of academic degrees called ATEEN, still acts illegally against graduates of recognized open universities. In 2023, the Council of State published its decision against the ministry's actions of the discriminative non-recognition of degrees.

History

Current leadership

List of ministers

National education and religious affairs (1981–2009)

Education, lifelong learning and religious affairs (2009–2012)

Education, religious affairs, culture and sport (2012–2013)

Education and religious affairs (2013–2015)

Culture, education and religious affairs (2015)

Education, research and religious affairs (2015–2019)

Education and religious affairs (2019–2023)

Education, religious affairs and sports (2023–present)

Deputy Ministers