Makarios II of Cyprus
Makarios II (
Biography
Michail Charalambous Papaioannou was born in a
In 1895, he was ordained a deacon and left Cyprus for further education. He studied at the Great School of the Nation in Constantinople before entering the Halki seminary.
In 1912, he enlisted in the Hellenic Army and served as chaplain during the Balkan Wars. On 20 March 1917, he was elected Bishop of Kyrenia.
After the disturbances of October 1931, Makarios was exiled by the British administration. He remained in
Makarios II was elected
Relationship with Enosis
On 6 March 1950, shortly before the Israeli consulate opened in Nicosia, Makarios II sent a letter to the office of Israeli Prime Minister David Ben-Gurion, dated 10 February 1950, describing the support of the Greek Cypriot population in unification with Greece (enosis). The same letter was sent to other heads of states to encourage support for Cypriot independence from Great Britain.[4] The letter was the first Greek Cypriot document entered in the Israel State Archives.
References
- ISBN 978-0-631-18966-4.
- ISBN 978-1-349-16500-1.
- ^ The Journal of the Moscow Patriarchate. 1977. p. 70.
- ISBN 978-1-350-35640-5.
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