 The extensive archival research conducted since the early 1960s by scholars, such as Nikolaos Panayotakis, Pandelis Prevelakis and Maria Constantoudaki, indicates strongly that El Greco's family and ancestors were Greek Orthodox.One of his uncles was an Orthodox priest, and his name is not mentioned in the Catholic archival baptismal records on Crete.Prevelakis goes even further, expressing his doubt that El Greco was ever a practicing Roman Catholic.