” ” Despite the damage caused by the 1999 earthquake, further aggravated by the earthquake of January 6th this year, the restoration of the Catholic Cathedral of Saint Denis in Athens, a city’s historical landmark, is still off. This was denounced by the Catholic archbishop of Athens, mgr. Nicolas Foscolos, who has been fighting for years for the restoration of the cathedral, considered damaged by the Greek authorities themselves. Some Orthodox churches have been restored by the government states the archbishop to SIR , while the restoration of the Catholic cathedral is still off. Why?" To voice his opinion, on January 6th, the day of the earthquake, Foscolos sent a letter to the new Greek Minister of Culture, Michail Liapis, in which he expressed all his "concern for the state in which the cathedral of Saint Denis is" and recalled that "special funds are allocated to the restoration of damaged buildings". (continued)” “
