The aim of this paper is to begin shedding some light on the important connections among civil society, religion and the quality of democracy by looking at the particulars of modem Greece-a country dominated by one religion, Orthodoxy. To develop and sustain a strong, virtually unassailable and quality sensitive democracy, a polity must possess `a robust and critical civil society that helps check the state and constantly generates new alternatives'. The article briefly reviews the theoretical antecedents of the democracy-civil society-religion nexus and will seek to illustrate its impact on the quality of democracy in light of the Greek experience.