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Official Cypriot Government (about the Church of Cyprus) Background on events curtailing religious freedoms and reports of signs of hope, such as the November 30, 1994 celebration of the Eucharist at St. Andrew monastery on the Karpas peninsula, the first event in the north in 20 years, from the CNEWA (Catholic Near East Welfare Association).
After the arrival of the British, [5] the Anglican Church of Cyprus was established in 1878. As of 1976, it falls under the Diocese of Cyprus and the Gulf. Protestants, according to the official 2011 population census, amount to 2.00% of the population. [6] Their Archdeacon is Dr John Holdsworth.
In the 1930s, the Church of Christ Antiphonitis was the property of Kykkos Monastery. [14] Presently it is classed as a museum and appears in the List of museums in Northern Cyprus. Antiphonitis monastery (Ιερά Μονή Αρχαγγέλου Αντιφωνητού) is listed as monastery of Church of Cyprus on its official website. [15]
This is a list of Archbishops of Cyprus since its foundation with known dates of enthronement. According to tradition, the Church of Cyprus was created by St. Barnabas in 45 AD. The see of Cyprus was declared autocephalous by the Council of Ephesus , on 30 July 431; its autocephaly was abolished in 1260, and was restored in 1571.
The slab has a date, 30 April 1662, indicating when reconstruction of the church was started. Although the precise date of the end of reconstruction is unclear but it is assumed that reconstruction was finished between 1662 and 1674. [4] After the reconstruction, the church became the residence of the Archbishop of Cyprus in 1720. [3]
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In 1994, he became Secretary of the Holy Synod of the Church of Cyprus.Alongside his ecclesiastical duties, he served as a chemistry teacher in Cypriot high schools. He was arrested and abused by the Turkish occupation troops in Cyprus and lodged an appeal in 1989 against Turkey at the European Court of Human Rights (n° 15300/891), which resulted in Turkey's first conviction (507/3.2.94) for ...
Neophytos of Morphou (born 21 January 1962 as Omiros Masouras) [1] is a Greek Cypriot clergyman of the Eastern Orthodox Church and bishop of the autocephalous Church of Cyprus. He was elected Metropolitan of Morphou on 13 September 1998.