His Beatitude, Makarios III (1913-1977), archbishop and ethnarch of the Orthodox Church of Cyprus and the first president of the Republic of Cyprus, 1959-1977, championed the campaign to unite the island politically with Greece for a quarter-century....

(born Aug. 13, 1913, Pano Panayia, Cyprus—died Aug. 3, 1977, Nicosia) Archbishop and primate of the Orthodox Church of Cyprus and president of Cyprus (1959–77). Son of a poor shepherd, he was ordained in 1946; he became bishop in 1948 and...

Makarios III (Greek: Μακάριος Γ`; Μιχαήλ Χριστοδούλου Μούσκος, Mihalis Christodoulou Mouskos), b. August 13 1913, Paphos, Cyprus – d. August 3 1977) was the archbishop and primate of the autocephalous Cypriot...

MIKHAIL KHRISTODOLOU MOUSKOS, born to a Greek Cypriot farming family in 1913, was in his mid-thirties in 1950 when he became primate of the Greek Orthodox Church of Cyprus as Archbishop Makarios III. He took a leading role in the campaign for enosis...

One of Cypriot architect Neoptolemos Michaelides' most beautiful designs is the church of Apostolos Varnavas and St. Makarios, constructed in the 1970s in Nicosia, Cyprus. However, the church's unique design is slowly being destroyed by a redecoration scheme being supervised by the local church...