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| Total population | |
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| 37,382[1] (CBS, 2023) | |
| Languages | |
| Dutch,Greek | |
| Religion | |
| Greek Orthodox Church | |
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| Greeks |
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Greeks in the Netherlands (Dutch:Grieken in Nederland;Greek:Έλληνες στην Ολλανδία,romanized: Éllines stin Ollandía) number 37,382 as of 2023.
The firstGreek Orthodox congregation inAmsterdam was founded byMetropolitan Gerasimos Avlonites.[2]
Tyerman has told that John Jones wrote to the patriarch of Smyrna and received confirmation that Erasmus was indeed Bishop of Arcadia, in Crete. The Greeks in Amsterdam, rather than denounce him as an imposture, acknowledged him as founding the first Greek Church there. He was not an ignorant man, but a renowned scholar, having participated in the publication of a serious work in London and Amsterdam.
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