Word: orthodox
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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NATHAN K. GROSS Union of Orthodox Jewish Congregations New York City...
Meeting in emergency session, the Greek Orthodox Church's Holy Synod cabled appeals to churches throughout the world, including its "sister church of Russia," which it called on to "display its traditionally strong protection, and use every power and influence" to end Makarios' exile. A general strike paralyzed Cyprus, while British paratroopers broke up small demonstrations with tear...
Religious Career: Ordained a priest (1946) of the Greek Orthodox Church. Continuing his studies on a scholarship awarded by the World Council of Churches to Boston University, he also served as a priest in Orthodox churches jn New England. While in the U.S. he was elected Bishop of Kition, and returned to Cyprus, where two years later he was elected archbishop...
Personality: Handsome, tall, slender, with glistening black eyes and trimmed black beard (a must for Orthodox priests), he has a soft, musical voice, which he uses without oratorical tricks. In interviews with foreign correspondents (which he gives readily) he is quiet-spoken, impassive, with no trace of emotion except, occasionally, a quick, bland smile that, says one correspondent, "crinkles his face like that of a boy who knows where the pot of jam is hidden." When talking, he likes to make a little cage of his hands, fingertips against fingertips...
Cypriot Cnurcn: The Church of Cyprus, to which 80% of the island's population belongs, is part of the Eastern Orthodox Church and has been autocephalic (self-ruled) since 431. Founded by St. Barnabas and St. Paul, it is in ecclesiastical communion with the other sees of Eastern Orthodox Churches, in dogma and liturgical tradition is close to the Roman Catholic Church because it preserves the faith as interpreted by the seven Ecumenical Councils of the first eight centuries (when the church was one and undivided). The Greek Orthodox Church is also in communion with the established Church...