Judicial Review over the Religious Education in Greece
Hellenic Council of State (Simvoulio tis Epikratias)
Judgments no. 660/2018, 926/2018, 1749/2019 and 1750/2019 in Plenum
Associate Judge, Greek Council of State
The plenary session of the Council of State decided that the new ministerial decrees on religious education in primary, middle and high school were unconstitutional given that they distorted the purpose of religious teaching, which is, according to the Constitution, to develop pupils' Orthodox Christian conscience.