The Church of Cyprus meanwhile solidifies its…
1949 CE
Prominent among its leaders is Bishop Makarios, spiritual and secular leader of the Greek Cypriots. Born Michael Christodoulou Mouskos in 1913 to peasant parents in the village of Pano Panayia, about thirty kilometers northeast of Paphos in the foothills of the Troodos Mountains, the future archbishop and president had entered Kykko Monastery as a novice at age thirteen.
His pursuit of education over the next several years had taken him from the monastery to the Pancyprian Gymnasium in Nicosia, where he finished secondary school.
From there, he moved to Athens University as a deacon to study theology.
After earning his degree in theology, he remained at the university during the Second World War occupation, studying law.
He was ordained as a priest in 1946, adopting the name Makarios. A few months after ordination, he received a scholarship from the World Council of Churches that took him to Boston University for advanced studies at the Theological College.
Before he had completed his studies at Boston, he was elected in absentia bishop of Kition.
He returned to Cyprus in the summer of 1948 to take up his new office.
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