Vote for me! Cyprus clerics scramble to get public vote


  • World
  • Sunday, 18 Dec 2022

Bishop Georgios of Paphos, a candidate for the new Archbishop of Cyprus, casts his ballot at a polling station in Apostle Varnavas Cathedral during the election process, to lead the island's Greek Orthodox Church in Nicosia, Cyprus December 18, 2022. REUTERS/Yiannis Kourtoglou

NICOSIA (Reuters) - Greek Cypriots went to the polls on Sunday in an electoral process for a new Archbishop to head an ancient church with modern interests from property management to breweries.

The Greek Orthodox Church of Cyprus is one of the few Orthodox Churches worldwide to recognise the independence of the fellow-Orthodox Church of Ukraine, in a move which triggered a rift within the Cypriot church in 2020.

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