Makarios had been consecrated as bishop on…
1950 CE
He also became secretary of the Ethnarchy Council, a position that made him chief political adviser to the archbishop and swept him into the mainstream of the enosis struggle.
His major accomplishment as bishop is planning the plebiscite that brings forth a ninety-six percent favorable vote for enosis in January 1950.
In June Archbishop Makarios II dies, and in October the bishop of Kition is elected to succeed him.
He takes office as Makarios III and, at age thirty-seven, is the youngest archbishop in the history of the Church of Cyprus.
At his inauguration, he pledges not to rest until union with "Mother Greece" has been achieved.
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