The Greek ambassador in Washington, D.C. is the official representative of the Hellenic Republic Government to the Government of the United States.
History After the War of Independence, which started in 1821, Greece was declared an independent state but it was not until February 3, 1830 that the Independence was recognized by the Great Powers with the signing of the Protocol of London. On May 7, 1832 Otto of Greece arrived in Nafplion and Greece became a Kingdom. The United States, however, only recognized the Greek state 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 New Orleans in 1866 with Nicolas Benachi as the first Greek consul there. In 1867, Demetrios Nicholas Botassis was named Consul General of Greece in New York City.
Ambassadors List of Chiefs of protocol:Chief of Protocol, Diplomatic Representation for Hellenic Republic
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 SavvaidisFormer Greek Ambassadors October 3, 2005 Alexandros Mallias July 20, 2009 Vassilis Kaskarelis September 19, 2012 Christos Panagopoulos June 2016 Haris Lalacos February 2020 Alexandra Papadopoulou
November 2023 Ekaterini Nassika
See also Greece–United States relations List of ambassadors of the United States to Greece
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