Word: archbishop
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Archbishop Makarios of Cyprus is both spiritual leader of 500,000 Greek Cypriots and President of the island's Greek-Turkish secular government. Lately, his problems have been mostly temporal, as the Greek government in Athens pressured him with humiliating ultimatums in an effort to either throttle his power or force him out of office (TIME, Feb. 28). Last week, for a change, the archbishop was experiencing ecclesiastical complications. At the annual synod of the Cypriot hierarchy, three bishops invoked a canon law-unused for at least a hundred years-forbidding bishops to hold church and state posts simultaneously...
...Kitium in Limassol as a guest of Bishop Anthimos. But there too, crowds beat at the doors of Anthimos' residence, screaming "Out with the traitor bishops!" In Nicosia, meanwhile, 100,000 people gathered outside Makarios' episcopal palace (he also has a presidential palace) to roar the archbishop's name and praises; it was the biggest such assembly since Makarios returned to Cyprus from British-imposed exile in 1959, and His Beatitude was suitably moved. "I will do my utmost to prove worthy of this love," he told the crowd...
...synod can force Makarios out as archbishop, although this would be dangerously unpopular. By making a show of his popularity, Makarios adroitly underscored the point that any overt attempt to topple him would raise the possibility of civil...
...always know how to be true ministers of reconciliation . . . [in] a civil war among brothers"). In December, the church's National Commission on Justice and Peace attacked the maintenance of public order by "force and repression." In January, when he took office as the new Archbishop of Madrid-Alcala, Spain's Vicente Cardinal Enrique y Tarancon, 64-himself the son of a working-class family-pointedly pledged that he was the "spokesman for those who have no voice to defend their legitimate aspirations-the poor...
...improvement in the release of Vatican information. Yet Heston observed recently: "Often a sergeant is capable of doing as good a job as a general, but he can't because he doesn't have the stars on his shoulders." Now Heston has his stars. Consecrated an archbishop last week by the Pope in St. Peter's, Heston took his elevation as proof that "the Holy Father is not entirely displeased" with his work...