 Tolerance of other religions was over @-@ supported by some in the English Party and others educated in the West as a symbol of Greece 's progress as a liberal European state . In the end , power over the Church and education was ceded to the Russian Party , while the King maintained a veto over the decision of the Synod of Bishops . This was to keep balance and avoid discrediting Greece in the eyes of Western Europe as a backward , religiously intolerant society . 
