After being forced to leave the island of Rhodes in 1522, the Order of Saint John no longer had any presence in Greece until 2022 when Ambassador Luca Rovati presented his credentials to the President of the Hellenic Republic Aikaterini Sakellaropoulou on 26th September 2022.
The current activities of the Embassy, with the assistance of all its members, mainly focus on finding the best ways to assist the vulnerable in the country, thus continuing our tradition.
St. John the Baptist was celebrated on Saturday 22nd June 2024 with a Mass in the Church of Our Lady of Victory in Rhodes Town.
The renovation of the four rooms dedicated to the Order of St. John (by which name our Order is known in Greece) at the Grand Masters' Palace in Rhodes' Old Town is among the Embassy’s first intervention.
In July 2023 Southern Europe was battling extreme heat. Large wildfires had been raging near Athens and on Rhodes. The Embassy coordinated teams from Malteser International to assist the population.
