Byzantine nobility title: Μaria Papadopoulou, Archontissa (Dame/Lady Commander) CLETr

Glory to our Good Lord of: - all kindness and grace, - all mercies and redemption, - and all blessings. With deep humble sense of reverence and duty for the sacred memory of our great forebears,fallen ethno-martyrs, vanquished patrides (fatherlands, homelands) and civilisations:
WE BESTOW To Mrs MARIA PAPADOPOULOU and JOINTLY

with husband Mr GEORGE DIMOSIOU

NOW KNOW YOU that with authorisation as aforesaid, with celebrating our Australia Day. I am pleased to award you the Byzantine nobility title, it being this Order's formal rank of RESPECTIVELY

- Archontissa (Dame/Lady Commander) CLETr,

- Spathaire (Knight Commander) CETr,

- In our Outreach conjunction with the Hellas Exarchate. In recognition of your services to community, State; particularly of your service to civil engineer and intellectual concerns
By this present you are granted to: - hold and enjoy the dignity of such award and all privileges therewith; - use the title's nomenclature, post-nominals, and regalia; - participate within the membership, and serve in the initiatives, of our Byzantine Chivalric Orders
This Investiture Instrument is granted in: - Glorifying our Lord with pious worship, faith, and compassion, - Honouring our Byzantine-Hellenic civilising legacies, - Upholding the chevaliers' honour and pursuing philanthropic service/duties, - Supporting rightful concerns. services, commitments in community development, and in social advancement, all Byzantine-Hellenic current and historical affairs, all matters Australian, Hellenic, regional, humane, and of international rule of law. - Enjoying pertinent rights and privileges, - Applying humanity's God-blessed virtues, - Observing the commendations expressed in His Imperial Royal Highness' Official Investiture Instrument (to be issued after request by the recipient; vide note 4 below)
In welcoming you, I date this in Sydney; this twenty-sixth day of January 2009.