Honorary Distinctions

Honorary Distinctions

The Municipality of Mykonos has established its own honorary distinction in the form of a medal for 40 years, in order to honor local personalities with distinguished contributions to the society of Mykonos.

The gold medal of the Municipality of Mykonos has been awarded over the last 25 years to benefactors, intellectuals, and other personalities who have honored Mykonos with their work, such as:

  • Prof. Vasileios Kyriazopoulos (founder of the Folklore Museum of Mykonos, the Museum of Greek Folk Ceramics, etc.)
  • Georgios Drakopoulos (founder of the Aegean Maritime Museum)
  • Stavros Manesis (philologist-author, honorary editor of the Dictionary of the Academy of Athens)
  • Jacques Santer (former President of the European Commission)
  • Metropolitan of Syros Dorotheos I
  • Nikos Angeletakis (journalist-publisher of the local newspaper 'Nea Mykonos')
  • Kalliopi Triantafyllou (librarian for 40 years at the Municipal Library of Mykonos)
  • Sofia Grypari (donor, along with her late husband Nik. Gryparis, of the 'Grypareion Cultural Center')

The Municipality of Mykonos has also activated the institution of Honorary Citizen, with which it honors personalities of broader scope who are not directly connected to Mykonos but have provided distinguished services to the society of Mykonos.

Honorary citizens of the Municipality of Mykonos in the last 20 years include:

  • Yehudi Menuhin (internationally renowned violinist)
  • Konstantinos Karamanlis (President of the Hellenic Republic)
  • Konstantinos Mitsotakis (Prime Minister) with his wife Marika Mitsotaki
  • Christian Ude (Mayor of Munich) with his wife Edith Welser-Ude
  • Prokopis Pavlopoulos (President of the Hellenic Republic)
  • Ieronymos II (Archbishop of Athens and All Greece)
  • Foteini Zafiropoulou (Archaeologist)
  • Konstantinos Tsakos (Archaeologist)

In the following playlist, you can watch highlights from the events proclaiming H.E. the President of the Republic Mr. P. Pavlopoulos and the Archbishop of Athens and All Greece Ieronymos II as Honorary Citizens of Mykonos, as well as from the Divine Liturgy at the Holy Church of St. Artemios in the presence of His Beatitude the Archbishop of Athens and All Greece Ieronymos II and from the procession of the Holy Icon and the Holy Relic of St. Artemios.

Highlights

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