Ministry of Culture and Sports (Greece)

Hellenic Republic
Ministry of Culture and Sports

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Established:	1971

The Ministry of Culture and Sports (Greek: Υπουργείο Πολιτισμού και Αθλητισμού) is a government department of Greece which is entrusted with the preservation of the country's cultural heritage, the arts, as well as sports, through the subordinate General Secretariat for Sports. The incumbent Minister is Aristides Baltas. The Deputy Minister of Sports is Stavros Kontonis.

History

This ministry was established in 1971 as the Ministry of Culture and Science (Ὑπουργεῖον Πολιτισμοῦ καὶ Ἐπιστημῶν) and it was renamed the Ministry of Culture (Υπουργείο Πολιτισμού) on 26 July 1985. On 7 October 2009, it was merged with the Ministry of Touristic Development to form the Ministry of Culture and Tourism (Υπουργείο Πολιτισμού και Τουρισμού). It ceased to exist on 21 June 2012, when the Ministry of Tourism was re-established and the culture portfolio was absorbed by the Ministry of Education, Lifelong Learning and Religious Affairs to form the Ministry of Education, Religious Affairs, Culture and Sport. The Ministry of Culture and Sport was re-established on 25 June 2013. On 27 January 2015 its area of responsibility was assigned to the Ministry of Culture, Education and Religious Affairs. On 23 September 2015 the Ministry was reintroduced.

List of Ministers for Culture and Science (1971–1985)

#	Name	Took Office	Left Office	Party
1.	Konstantinos Panagiotakis	26 August 1971	25 November 1973
2.	Dimitrios Tsakonas	25 November 1973	24 July 1974
3.	Konstantinos Tsatsos	24 July 1974	9 October 1974	National Radical Union
4.	Ioannis Michail Panagiotopoulos	9 October 1974	21 November 1974
5.	Konstantinos Trypanis	21 November 1974	28 November 1977	New Democracy
6.	Georgios Plytas	28 November 1977	25 September 1978	New Democracy
7.	Demetrios Nianias	25 September 1978	10 May 1980	New Democracy
8.	Andreas Andrianopoulos	10 May 1980	21 October 1981	New Democracy
9.	Melina Mercouri	21 October 1981	26 July 1985	Panhellenic Socialist Movement

List of Ministers for Culture (1985–2009)

#	Name	Took Office	Left Office	Party
	Melina Mercouri	26 July 1985	2 July 1989	Panhellenic Socialist Movement
10.	Anna Psarouda-Benaki (first term)	2 July 1989	7 July 1989	New Democracy
11.	Georgios Mylonas (first term)	7 July 1989	23 November 1989	New Democracy
12.	Sotiris Kouvelas	23 November 1989	13 February 1990	New Democracy
	Georgios Mylonas (second term)	13 February 1990	11 April 1990	New Democracy
13.	Tzannis Tzannetakis	11 April 1990	8 August 1991	New Democracy
	Anna Psarouda-Benaki (second term)	8 August 1991	3 December 1992	New Democracy
14.	Dora Bakoyanni	7 December 1992	13 October 1993	New Democracy
	Melina Mercouri (second term)	13 October 1993	6 March 1994 (death in office)	Panhellenic Socialist Movement
15.	Thanos Mikroutsikos	16 March 1994 (acting minister from 6 March)	22 January 1996	Panhellenic Socialist Movement
16.	Stavros Benos	22 January 1996	25 September 1996	Panhellenic Socialist Movement
17.	Evangelos Venizelos (first term)	25 September 1996	19 February 1999	Panhellenic Socialist Movement
18.	Elisavet Papazoi	19 February 1999	13 April 2000	Panhellenic Socialist Movement
19.	Theodoros Pangalos	13 April 2000	20 November 2000	Panhellenic Socialist Movement
	Evangelos Venizelos (second term)	20 November 2000	10 March 2004	Panhellenic Socialist Movement
20.	Kostas Karamanlis	10 March 2004	15 February 2006	New Democracy
21.	Georgios Voulgarakis	15 February 2006	19 September 2007	New Democracy
22.	Michalis Liapis	19 September 2007	7 January 2009	New Democracy
23.	Antonis Samaras	8 January 2009	7 October 2009	New Democracy

List of Ministers for Culture and Tourism (2009–2012)

#	Name	Took Office	Left Office	Party
24.	Pavlos Geroulanos	7 October 2009	17 May 2012	Panhellenic Socialist Movement
25.	Tatiana Karapanagioti	17 May 2012	21 June 2012	caretaker government

List of Ministers for Education, Religious Affairs, Culture and Sport (2012–2013)

#	Name	Took Office	Left Office	Party
26.	Konstantinos Arvanitopoulos	21 June 2012	25 June 2013	New Democracy

List of Ministers for Culture and Sport (2013-2015)

#	Name	Took Office	Left Office	Party
27.	Panos Panagiotopoulos	25 June 2013	10 June 2014	New Democracy
28.	el	10 June 2014	27 January 2015	New Democracy

List of Ministers for Culture and Sports (September 2015–)

#	Name	Took Office	Left Office	Party
29.	Aristides Baltas	23 September 2015	Incumbent	SYRIZA

External links

• Ministry of Culture and Sports
  • English language version

References

• Lar's website