I believe that your ministry will be expedient and fruitful, Ieronymos II, Archbishop of Athens and All Greece said to Archbishop of Cyprus Georgios addressing his enthronement ceremony, on Sunday, in Nicosia.
Particularly, he added, “in ecclesiastical matters which have to do with the identity and unity of the church and the destination and meaning of human existence.”
He referred in particular to the difficult times in which Archbishop Georgios assumes his duties and spoke of the instability and fluidity of modern civilisation and the unprecedented digital progress.
Archbishop Ieronymos further spoke of the fact that Archbishop Georgios will also have to deal with the consequences of the Turkish invasion of 1974 which “remain unhealed”.
Cyprus has been divided since 1974, when Turkey invaded and occupied its northern third.
Source: Cyprus News Agency