Archbishop Chrysostomos I

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Archbishop Chrysostomos I (27 September 1927 - ) is a former Archbishop of Cyprus. He was born in the village of Statos in Paphos. By the scholarship of Kykkos Monastery, whom he served as a monk, he finished the Pancyprian Gymnasium (High School) in 1950 and he studied theology and literature in the University of Athens.

He was named an archimandrite. He taught in the Pancyprian Gymnasium as a professor. He served as Bishop of Paphos from 1973 until November 12, 1977 when he was elected Archbishop of Cyprus in succession to the late President and Archbishop of Cyprus, Makarios III who died the same year.

In April 2000 he suffered a severe head injury when he fell from the staircase of the Archiepiscopal Palace and never recovered^[1]. In 2004 it became known that he suffered from Alzheimer's disease^[2] and fell into a coma the following year. However he remained Head of the Church of Cyprus due to lack of legislation in church's laws for cases of incapacity. In early 2006 the Cypriot bishops asked the Patriarch of Constantinople to convoke a Panorthodox Synod to decide what was to be done since his condition was irreversible and he was still on a coma.

A Pan-Orthodox Synod was convoked in Constantinople in May 2006 and it was decided that Chrysostomos was to be removed from office due to serious health problems, while retaining his honorific titles. Bishop of Paphos Chrysostomos was elected as locum tenens and Archiepiscopal elections were proclaimed for 24 September 2006. Archbishop Chrysostomos II became the new Archbishop of Cyprus.

[edit] See also

List of Archbishops of Cyprus

Preceded by Makarios III	Archbishop of Cyprus 1977–2006	Succeeded by Chrysostomos II

[edit] External links

Encyclopedia Cyprus - Church, Art, Letters

[edit] References

^ Archbishop back home - Cyprus Mail archive article - Thursday, September 26, 2002 [1]
^ Brain surgery for Archbishop? - Cyprus Mail archive article - Thursday, June 19, 2003 [2]