The Archbishops of Cyprus in the Modern Age [electronic resource] : the Changing Role of the Archbishop-Ethnarch, their Identities and Politics.
Publication details: Newcastle upon Tyne : Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 2013.Description: 1 online resource (345 pages)Content type:- text
- computer
- online resource
- 9781443850810 (electronic bk.)
- 1443850810 (electronic bk.)
- Church -- 20th century
- Church -- 21st century
- Religion
- Makarios III, Archbishop of Cyprus, 1913-1977
- Orthodoxos Ekklēsia tēs Hellados -- History
- Statesmen -- Cyprus -- History
- Cypriots -- History
- Nationalism -- Cyprus
- Church history -- 20th century
- Cyprus -- History -- Turkish rule, 1571-1878
- RELIGION / Christian Ministry / Pastoral Resources
- 253.09
- BS2545.C5 .V384 2013
Table of contents; list of images; series editor introduction; acknowledgements; chapter one; chapter two; chapter three; chapter four; chapter five; chapter six; chapter seven; chapter eight; chapter nine; chapter ten; chapter eleven; contributors; selected bibliography; index.
Since the onset of Ottoman rule, but more especially from the mid-18th Century, the archbishops of the autocephalous Cypriot Orthodox Church have wielded a great deal of political power. Most people of a certain age will remember the bearded monk who became a Greek nationalist politician and the first President of the Republic of Cyprus in 1960, Archbishop Makarios III. Indeed his presence at Madame Tussaud's is a reminder of his stature. But were all Cypriot archbishops such political and po ...
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