Keys handed over to first students in new Limassol hall of residence
Students at Limassol’s Cyprus University of Technology (Tepak) were on Monday handed the keys to the first batch of rooms at the newly completed Apollonia...
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Politicians remaining silent about art teacher so don’t lose votes says Archbishop
Politicians have remained silent over the art teacher whose paintings have caused controversy because they do not want to lose votes, Archbishop Chrysostomos said on...
Coronavirus: Archbishop tells health workers to mind their own business
Archbishop Chrysostomos on Tuesday told health professionals who advocated opening churches to mind their own business and stay out of Church matters. Weighing into the...
My fight for a crematorium failed but I’m leaving with many happy memories
Expat View By Clive Turner This is what you might call ‘a wave and goodbye’ piece. After living here for 17 years and writing many...
Archbishop criticises ‘unacceptable’ behaviour of protestors
Archbishop Chrysostomos on Sunday said those who had pushed their way through the police cordon during a demonstration on Saturday against the closure of the...
Archbishop’s operation successful say doctors
Archbishop Chrysostomos’ operation at the Carolina Medical Center in the US was a successful one, his doctors announced on Friday. The archbishop’s office cited Dr...
Archbishop under pressure over conversion of historic mansion into byzantine museum (Update)
By Niki Charalambous KEEPING the Hadjigeorgakis Kornesios mansion as an ethnological museum is a matter of public interest, the transport ministry said on Monday following...
Row raging within the Church of Cyprus
A row is raging within the Church of Cyprus, pitting Archbishop Chrysostomos against three bishops over the autonomy granted to the Ukrainian Church by the...
Archbishop says will return passport ‘donations’ if proven money was dirty
Archbishop Chrysostomos said Tuesday he was prepared to return €310,000 he received from a now wanted Malaysian businessman who secured Cypriot citizenship through the island’s...
AG says waiting for government action before intervening on citizenship issue
Attorney-general Costas Clerides said on Tuesday he will wait for government actions on the citizenship issue before deciding on whether to intervene. “I am waiting...
Bishop lambasted by state officials, Church distances itself
Government Spokesman Prodromos Prodromou on Tuesday said that the controversial statements on homosexuals by the Bishop of Morphou ought to be retracted in a way...
Archbishop distances himself from bishop’s homosexual statements
Archbishop Chrysostomos said on Tuesday the controversial statements on homosexuality made by Morphou Bishop Neophytos do not represent him, while five days after they were...
Patriarchs of region hold meeting in Nicosia
Patriarchs Theodore of Alexandria, John of Antioch, and Theophilos of Jerusalem held a joint meeting in Nicosia on Thursday with Archbishop Chrysostomos. During the meeting...
Turkey wants entire island, archbishop says
Archbishop Chrysostomos said he was not concerned about a two-state solution because he knew Turkey wanted the entire island. Chrysostomos, who celebrated his name day...
Archbishop undergoes successful surgery (Updated)
Archbishop Chrysostomos, who has undergone successful surgery in London to remove two small tumours from his liver, is feeling well and is expected to make...
Archbishop denies claims of links with tainted Athos monastery
Archbishop Chrysostomos has vehemently denied allegations that he was asked to provide financial support to one of the monasteries at Mount Athos, Greece’s self-governing monastic...
Archbishop discharged following surgery
Archbishop Chrysostomos has been discharged from hospital where he had undergone surgery to remove a tumour from his large intestine, it was announced on Thursday....
Archbishop delivers sombre Easter message
Archbishop Chrysostomos in his Easter sermon called for vigilance and a change of attitude towards settlement negotiations, saying that Cyprus found itself ‘inexcusably’ unprepared after...
Greek businessman who attended president’s inauguration invades pitch with pistol
The owner of Paok Thessalonikis, tipped to buy a Church-controlled television station in Cyprus and who attended the president’s inauguration at the invitation of the archbishop, went...
Single parents chastise Church for calling them ‘problematic’
The single parents’ association on Tuesday chastised the archbishopric for referring to divorced parents as a ‘problematic situation’. The “outdated rules” were referenced in the...
