 In 2008 the A.G. Leventis Foundation endowed a new chair at Cambridge University in Greek culture, and in 2017 the Foundation endowed a chair in Greek culture at the University of Dublin — the A. G. Leventis Professor of Greek Culture.The earliest records of his family go back to the 18th Century when a young ancestor had traveled to the Peloponnese to join the abortive 1770 uprising against Ottoman rule (known to history as the ‘Orlov’ rebellion).By the time of his birth, his family counted a number of distinguished clerics who served at the highest levels — metropolitan bishops, patriarchs from the Orthodox churches of Jerusalem and Antioch, as well as from the Church of Cyprus.