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27, Philellinon Street, Athens 105 57, Greece (Open Tuesday -Saturday 10.00 - 14.00 hrs and during Sunday Service)
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Any Liturgical or Church enquiries should be made to one of the team using the contact details below
Tel:(+30) 210 72 14 906anglican@otenet.gr
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THE EARLIEST FOREIGN
CHURCH IN ATHENS
Philellinon facade and entrance
CONSECRATED ON
PALM SUNDAY IN 1843
St. Paul’s gate
BY THE RT REV,
GEORGE TOMLINSON
St. Paul’s seen
from Amalias Avenue
SIMPLE ENGLISH
GOTHIC STYLE
A PLACE OF WORSHIP,
PASTORAL CARE AND
SOCIAL ACTIVITIES
SUNG EUCHARIST
EVERY SUNDAY AT 10:30AM
St. Paul’s seen
from Amalias Avenue
OPEN SINCE PALM SUNDAY 1843
AN ANGLICAN presence has existed in Athens since early 1831, when Dr John Henry Hill, an American philanthropist and founder of a still-existing school, gathered Anglicans in his home for services. In 1836, the Rev. Henry Daniel Leeves (1789-1845) arrived in Athens as the representative of the British Foreign and Bible Society. Under their leadership, land was bought close to the Acropolis and some fifteen minutes’ walking distance from the Areopagus, the place where St. Paul spoke with the Athenians of his day (Acts 17.22). There, a church dedicated to St. Paul was erected.
Consecrated on Palm Sunday in 1843 by the Rt. Rev. George Tomlinson, Bishop of Gibraltar, St. Paul’s became the earliest foreign church in the city. Since then it has been a focus of worship, pastoral care and cultural activities for the English-speaking residents of Athens, as well as for visitors travelling through Greece.
See Athens at the time of St. Paul’s consecration through the eyes of Edward Lear
Edward LEAR, Athens from Mount Lycabettus, 12 June 1848
At the time of its consecration, St. Paul’s was almost on the outskirts of the newly-established Greek capital, which numbered around ten thousand inhabitants. Today, St. Paul’s is in the very centre of the city, just four minutes’ walking distance from Syntagma (Constitution) Square and its metro station – and only a few minutes more from the Acropolis metro station.†
