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Turkey condemned on Monday the comments made by Greece's top cleric about Islam, describing them as "presumptuous" and noting that they undermine efforts to restart the exploratory bilateral talks on maritime sovereignty which are scheduled to start later in January.

Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan thanked Ecumenical Patriarch Vartholomeos for the support and donations of the patriarchate, Greek institutions in the city and donors abroad in the battle against the coronavirus pandemic, during a call on Wednesday.

Archbishop Ieronymos of Athens and All Greece, the head of Greece's Orthodox Church, was admitted on Saturday at the Onassio Hospital to have a pacemaker installed.

The operation was scheduled and came after the recommendation of his physicians, Ieronymos' office says.

Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis was sworn in at the Presidential Mansion, with Archbishop Ieronymos of Athens and All Greece conducting the ceremony in the presence of President Prokopis Pavlopoulos.

The government has released its revised plan on the implementation on the church-state agreement agreed to by PM Alexis Tsipras and Archbishop Ieronymos of Athens and All Greece, following a meeting between Education, Research, and Religious Affairs Minister Kostas Gavroglu and the church's committee on dialogue with the state.

Archbishop Ieronymos on Friday assured clerics of the Greek Orthodox Church that an agreement for the separation of church and state that is currently under discussion will safeguard their rights.

Archbishop Ieronymos of Athens and All Greece on Saturday said he was willing to consider exploiting Church assets in a bid to pay off the country's foreign debt. In an interview with private SKAI TV he clarified that he was not going to sell off Church property but exploit it.