Word: archbishop
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Archbishop Makarios, the bearded President of Cyprus, is a man with a strong sense of the dramatic. Last week, after Presidential Envoy Cyrus Vance had skillfully tied the strings on a settlement between the Turks and Greeks that averted the threat of war over the island, Makarios suddenly balked and threatened to undo the whole package...
Short and amiably unprepossessing, the man who sat in the great episcopal throne of St. Patrick's Cathedral in 1939 was hardly the image of a bishop, let alone the archbishop of the vast Archdiocese of New York. "I shall pray as if everything depended upon God," he said when he assumed his office. "I shall work as if everything depended on me." And so seriously did he take his vow - so firmly did he place his mark on American Catholicism - that when he died of a stroke in Manhattan last week, Francis Cardinal Spellman, 78, was without question...
...consecrated a bishop in St. Peter's in 1932, he wore the same vestments that the patrician Roman had worn at his own consecration. Returning to the U.S., Spellman served as auxiliary bishop of Boston and two months after the elevation of Pius XII in 1939 was named Archbishop of New York (he was made a cardinal...
...Down came many of the roadblocks that had divided Cyprus into warring camps. Sniping incidents declined, and the two ethnic groups even began to mix with one another on a relatively friendly, if cautious, basis. Earlier this month, as a gesture of good will, the Greek Cypriot government of Archbishop Makarios released from prison Turkish Cypriot Leader Rauf Denktash, who had been captured after he secretly smuggled himself into Cyprus...
Provocative Hawk. This calm was rudely shattered two weeks ago by what began as a routine police action by Greek Cypriots. Fearing that Turkish villages were becoming enclaves through which free passage would eventually be denied, Archbishop Makarios decided to reassert his government's authority by ordering a resumption of patrols by Greek Cypriot police in two predominantly Turkish villages about 30 miles south of Nicosia. Unfortunately, the direction of the operation was entrusted to the wrong man: Lieut. General George Grivas. While Makarios seems to favor an independent Cyprus with friendly relations with Greece, Grivas, the island...