Katerina Sakellaropoulou is sworn in as the first female President of Greece amid strict COVID-19 measures.

Katerina Sakellaropoulou

President of Greece from 2020 to 2025

Katerina N. Sakellaropoulou is a Greek retired judge who served as the president of Greece from 2020 to 2025. She was elected by the Hellenic Parliament to succeed Prokopis Pavlopoulos on 22 January 2020. Prior to her election as president, Sakellaropoulou served as president of…

President of Greece

Head of state of Greece

The president of Greece, officially the president of the Hellenic Republic, commonly referred to in Greek as the president of the Republic, is the head of state of Greece. The president is elected by the Hellenic Parliament; the role has been mainly ceremonial since the 1986…

COVID-19 pandemic in Greece

The COVID-19 pandemic in Greece was a part of the worldwide pandemic of coronavirus disease 2019 caused by severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2. The first case in Greece was confirmed on 26 February 2020 when a 38-year-old woman from Thessaloniki who had recently…

March 13

Day of the year

March 13 is the 72nd day of the year in the Gregorian calendar; 293 days remain until the end of the year.