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With some foreign statesmen, Makarios could be cold and obstinate. With his own people, however, he was warm and effusive. Although he suffered a mild heart attack earlier this year, Cypriots were unprepared for his death. The vigorous archbishop had never really designated a successor. The mourning, as a result, was electric as Greeks filed past the bier, where he lay in splendid gold crown and mantle. The Greek Cypriot government declared a 40-day mourning period...
...archbishop, it was fitting that those who for so long found it difficult to live with him were suddenly so worried about living without him. But this was not surprising: Makarios has been the hub of Cyprus' political ambiguities ever since he was elected archbishop of the Orthodox Church of Cyprus in 1950 and assumed the traditional title of ethnarch (literally ethnic or national leader). Like a medieval Pope, the ethnarch is both a secular and religious leader. Makarios practiced the politics but preferred the spiritual title. He wanted to be addressed formally as "Your Beatitude...
While the Turks marshaled their own forces, the Greeks fell to fighting among themselves. In preindependence days, Makarios battled the British with the legendary Colonel George Grivas, whose EOKA (for National Organization of Cypriot Fighters) provided the archbishop's guerrilla legions. After independence, Grivas was banished to Athens as part of the settlement. He later returned secretly to oppose Makarios with a new EOKA-B. After the 1967 coup of the colonels in Greece itself, assassination attempts and other plots against the archbishop multiplied. In 1974 the Athens junta mounted a coup that sent Makarios into hasty exile once...
...DIED. Archbishop Makarios III, 63, President of Cyprus since it became independent in 1960; of a heart attack; in Nicosia, Cyprus (see THE WORLD...
Reactions to all this have been swift and angry. The Daily Telegraph editorialized that the book constitutes "a failure of ecclesiastical statesmanship" that will confuse faithful Christians. The semiofficial Church Times dismissed the anthology as "a notably unconvincing contribution to the cause of unbelief." The Archbishop of Canterbury was heard to remark at a picnic that the book "has made more hubbub than it is worth"; in that spirit, he successfully prevented debate over it at last month's meeting of the church General Synod...