Greece’s political leaders were round and about the country on Saturday, Jan. 6, for the Epiphany (or Theophany), a main religious holiday in the predominately Eastern Orthodox nation of 11 million.
Greek Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras was on the eastern Aegean island of Kalymnos, and escorted by his junior coalition partner, DM Panos Kammenos.
Major opposition New Democracy (ND) leader Kyriakos Mitsotakis was on the Cyclades island of Tinos, while Greece’s president, Prokopis Pavlopoulos, atttended the most prominent “Blessing of the Waters” liturgy, held quayside at the port of Piraeus.
Epiphany was also celebrated throughout the Greek Diaspora communities in the US, Australia as well as elsewhere in the world.
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