The Committee for Pontic Studies is a scientific, non-profit association founded in 1927 in Athens by a group of intellectual Pontic Greeks and distinguished members of public and social life, at the initiative of doctor Theofylaktos and under the leadership of the last Metropolitan of Trebizond Chrysanthos (Filippides), later Archbishop of Athens and all of Greece. Its purpose is the collection, study and publication of materials on language, folklore and the history of Pontos. Its publication series includes: scholarly journal "Archeion Pontou", published since 1928, including studies on history, language, folklore, etc. Special annexes of the journal also include original, separate scholarly treatises on the culture of the Pontic Greeks as well as other publications (maps, albums, collective volumes, etc.). The E.P.M. is located in New Smyrna, Attica, in a privately owned building that named "House of Heirlooms of Pontic Hellenism", which houses the Secretariat, the Library, the Museum of the Greeks of Pontos, lecture and conference rooms and storage rooms of both historical relics and its publications.
