Embassy of Greece, Washington, D.C.


The Embassy of Greece in Washington, D.C. is the Hellenic Republic's diplomatic mission to the United States. It is located at 2217 Massachusetts Avenue, Northwest, Washington, D.C. in the Embassy Row neighborhood, near Sheridan Circle. The embassy complex consists of three buildings. The current ambassador is Alexandra Papadopoulou and first woman in this post.
WWW mfa.gr/usa/en/the-embassy

History

After the War of Independence, which started in 1821, Greece was declared an independent state but it was not until 3 February 1830 that the Independence was recognized by the Great Powers with the signing of the Protocol of London. On 7 May 1832 Otto of Greece arrived in Nafplion and Greece became a Kingdom. The United States, however, recognized the Greek state only in 1833. In December 1837 a commercial treaty was signed, which regulated trade between the two countries. The first Greek consulate to be established was that of New Orleans, in 1866. Records indicate that Nicolas Benachi was the first Greek consul in New Orleans. In 1867, Demetrios Nicholas Botassis was named Consul General of Greece in New York City.

Former Ambassadors

  • December 23, 1907 Lambros Koromilas, Minister Resident
  • July 29, 1909 Lambros Koromilas
  • March 13, 1913 A. Vouros, Charge d'Affaires
  • August 17, 1914 Agamemnon Schliemann
  • December 7, 1914 A. Vouros, Charge d’Affaires a.i.
  • September 21, 1917
  • October 25, 1920 Georgios Drakopoulos, in charge of Legation
  • December 15, 1920 Georgios Drakopoulos Charge d’Affaires a.i.
  • January 11, 1923, Charge d’Affaires a.i.
  • May 22, 1924, Charge d'Affaires a.i.
  • June 30, 1924 Vasilios Mammonos, Charge d'Affaires a.i.
  • August 21, 1924 Konstantinos D. Xanthopoulos, Charge d’Affaires a.i.
  • December 12, 1924 Charalambos Simopoulos
  • April 26, 1935 Dimitrios Sikelianos
  • February 7, 1940
;Legation raised to Embassy
  • October 6, 1942
  • December 6, 1946 Pavlos Oikonomou-Gouras, Charge d'Affaires a.i.
  • June 3, 1947
  • December 8, 1954 Athanase George Politis
  • October 6, 1958
  • February 13, 1962 Alexandros Matsas
  • September 20, 1967
  • November 13, 1969 Basil Vitsaksis
  • December 1, 1972 Ioannis Argyrios Sorokos
  • February 27, 1974
  • September 3, 1974
  • August 16, 1979, Charge d’Affaires ad interim
  • September 4, 1979
  • December 15, 1981 Georgios Sioris, Charge d’Affaires ad interim
  • January 13, 1982 Nikolaos Karandreas
  • September 10, 1983 Georgios Sioris, Charge d'Affaires ad interim
  • September 19, 1983 Georgios Papoulias
  • September 21, 1989
  • June 15, 1993
  • July 6, 1998 Alexander Philon
  • July 2, 2002 Georgios Savvaidis
Diplomatic agrémentDiplomatic accreditationambassador
September 29, 2005October 3, 2005Alexandros Mallias
June 24, 2009July 20, 2009Vassilis Kaskarelis
September 17, 2012September 19, 2012Christos Panagopoulos
June 2016Haris Lalacos

Consulates

The embassy is also responsible for other eight Greek diplomatic missions throughout the United States, each one responsible for certain states:General Consulates