Kyrillos III (nicknamed Kyrilloudin "small Kyrillos" to differentiate from

Kyrillos II Kyrillos II Papadopoulos ( gr, Κύριλλος Παπαδόπουλος, 26 October 1845 – 6 July 1916), nicknamed Kyrillatsos ("Big Kyrillos"), was a Cypriot bishop and politician. He held the positions of Bishop of Larnaca and List of Archb ...

; born Panagiotis Vassiliou; 1859 – 16 November 1933), was the

bishop A bishop is an ordained clergy member who is entrusted with a position of authority and oversight in a religious institution. In Christianity, bishops are normally responsible for the governance of dioceses. The role or office of bishop is c ...

Kyrenia Kyrenia ( el, Κερύνεια ; tr, Girne ) is a city on the northern coast of Cyprus, noted for its historic harbour and castle. It is under the ''de facto'' control of Northern Cyprus. While there is evidence showing that the wider region ...

and later became the archbishop of the

Cypriot Orthodox Church The Church of Cyprus ( el, Ἐκκλησία τῆς Κύπρου, translit=Ekklisia tis Kyprou; tr, Kıbrıs Kilisesi) is one of the autocephalous Greek Orthodox churches that together with other Eastern Orthodox churches form the communion ...

Biography

Born in Prastio village of

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, in 1859 he became monk at the age of 13 at St Panteleimon monastery in Myrtou village,

Kyrenia District Kyrenia District is one of the six districts of Cyprus. Its main town is Kyrenia ( el, Κερύνεια; tr, Girne). It is the smallest of Cyprus' districts, and is the only one controlled in its entirety by the unrecognised de facto state o ...

. He studied philosophy and theology at the

University of Athens The National and Kapodistrian University of Athens (NKUA; el, Εθνικό και Καποδιστριακό Πανεπιστήμιο Αθηνών, ''Ethnikó ke Kapodistriakó Panepistímio Athinón''), usually referred to simply as the Univers ...

. In 1895 he was elected Bishop of Kyrenia and after the Kyrillos II' s death, he was elected

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on 11 November 1916. Opponents of him in those elections were the Bishop of

Kition Kition ( Egyptian: ; Phoenician: , , or , ; Ancient Greek: , ; Latin: ) was a city-kingdom on the southern coast of Cyprus (in present-day Larnaca). According to the text on the plaque closest to the excavation pit of the Kathari site (as of ...

Meletios, the Bishop of Kykkos Kleopas and archimandrite Makarios Myriantheas, later known as Makarios II who became Archbishop of Cyprus years later. He was more moderate than his predecessor

and was accused of being too sympathetic to the British colonial rulers of

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. He was also elected as one of the 6 Christian Legislators in the Cypriot Parliament. Archbishop Kyrillos died on 16 November 1933 of

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. In March 2010 his grave was vandalised.

References

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