Overview:

• Greek Orthodox Church (GOC) is the state religion which has special constitutional status.

• Recognition and registration look to be amalgamated rather than ideally differentiated; a system of vertical recognition and partial recognition exists; the former because of the two categories for religious groups – religious group and known religion – while the latter form of recognition emerges in the fact that registration with the government does not equate to the same recognised status as the GOC.

• Members of some minorities continue to face both discrimination and legal barriers.

• Multiformism is not allowed for.

• The banning of proselytism demonstrates a significant setback for the Greek government's maintenance of high religious freedom standards; proselytism doesn't correspond to fraudulent means of conversion; although this law may be dormant or rarely enforced, its existence cannot be tolerated as part of sustaining high religious freedom standards.

Positive elements:

• There is an established system for legal registration despite it possessing some restrictive elements.

Recommendations:

• Equalise all provisions.

• Establish provisions for existential recognition.

• Remove restrictive elements from the existent system.

• Revoke dormant laws on proselytism.