NICOSIA, Dec 24 (Reuters) - The Church of Cyprus's ruling body on Saturday elected Georgios, a theologian and former chemistry teacher, as Archbishop of the centuries-old Church, replacing the ...

An exhibition of photographs of the Church of Panayia Kanakaria from the ... He was invited to Cyprus in 1952 by director of the Antiquities Department of the then-colonial administration of ...

NICOSIA, Cyprus (AP) — Chrysostomos II, the leader of Cyprus' Orthodox Church, was laid to rest Saturday with a ceremony that reflected centuries of ecclesiastical tradition, eulogized as his ...

"The people of Cyprus mourn the loss of Archbishop Chrysostomos II," President Nicos Anastasiades tweeted. "His reforming work for Orthodox Christianity, the Church and his action for the ...

A 500-year-old Orthodox icon that was looted from a church in the breakaway north of ethnically divided Cyprus has been returned to the island. The icon of the Enthroned Christ, which Cyprus’s ...