Prominent professor and Hellenist Roderick Beaton took an oath as a Greek citizen at a ceremony held on Tuesday at the Bank of Greece (BoG) conference room, ANA reports.
Beaton, who joined the faculty at King’s College in 1981, became Koraes Professor of Modern Greek and Byzantine History, Language, and Literature at King’s College in 1988. He retired from the College in 2018 after also having served as head of the college’s Department of Byzantine and Modern Greek Studies and director of the Centre for Hellenic Studies.
The request for honorary citizenship was submitted to the government by BoG Governor Yannis Stournaras and approved by Interior Minister Makis Voridis and Secretary General Athanassios Balerbas. The latter administered the oath.
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