Perhaps most objectionable to the Greek Cypriots…
1924 CE to 1935 CE
After the bishops of Kition and Kyrenia had been exiled, only two of the church's four major offices are occupied, i.e., the archbishopric in Nicosia and the bishopric of Paphos.
When Archbishop Cyril III dies in 1933 leaving Bishop Leontios of Paphos as locum tenens, church officials want the exiled bishops returned for the election of a new archbishop.
The colonial administration refuses, stating that the votes can be sent from abroad; the church authorities object, and the resulting stalemate will keep the office vacant from 1933 until 1947.
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