Cyprus, Christianity in

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Cyprus, Christianity in. Cyprus was evangelized by St Paul and St Barnabas (Acts 13). There were three bishops from Cyprus at the Council of Nicaea (325), and that of Ephesus in 431 recognized the claims of the Cypriot bishops to independence of the patriarchates; since the 5th cent. the archbishop, or exarch, has held rank immediately after the five patriarchs. The Cypriots came under Arab rule but were set free in the 10th cent., and at this time the great monasteries were built. The Crusaders introduced a Latin hierarchy in 1196. The Latin Church was extinguished when the Turks took the island in 1571, but the Greeks were eventually allowed to reconstitute their Church. After British rule was established in 1878, since the bishops and clergy tended to be nationalist leaders, relations with the authorities were often strained; in 1960 Abp. Makarios became the first President of the Republic of Cyprus. Since 1974 much of the island has been occupied by Turks; here churches and monasteries have been closed, demolished, or turned into mosques.

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