biography
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Makarios III
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originally Mihail Khristodoulou Mouskos
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pronunciation:
[makaryos]
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| lived:
| (1913–77)
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| biography:
| Archbishop and primate of the Orthodox Church of Cyprus, and president of Cyprus (1960–74, 1974–7), born in Ano Panayia, SW Cyprus. He was ordained priest in 1946, elected Bishop of Kition in 1948, and became archbishop in 1950. He reorganized the enosis (union) movement, was arrested and detained in 1956, but returned to a tumultuous welcome in 1959 to become chief Greek-Cypriot Minister in the new Greek–Turkish provisional government. Later that year he was elected president. A short-lived coup removed him briefly from power in 1974. On his death, the posts of archbishop and head of state were separated. |
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