Chrysostomos I of Cyprus, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death
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Archbishop of Cyprus
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Place of Birth: Statos-Agios Fotios, Paphos District, Cyprus
About Chrysostomos I of Cyprus
- Archbishop Chrysostomos I, born as Christoforos Aristodimou (27 September 1927 – 22 December 2007) was the Archbishop of Cyprus from 1977 to 2006.
- He was born in the village of Statos in Paphos, Cyprus.
- By the scholarship of Kykkos Monastery, where 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 then returned to Kykkos Monastery and was ordained deacon in February 1951.
- In October 1961 he was ordained priest and returned to the Pancyprian Gymnasium where he taught theology for 5 years. In 1968 he was elected bishop of Constantia before becoming Bishop of Paphos in July 1973.
- On 12 November 1977 he was elected Archbishop of Cyprus in succession to the President and Archbishop of Cyprus, Makarios III, who had 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.
- In 2004 it became known that he suffered from Alzheimer's disease and he fell into a coma the following year. He remained Head of the Church of Cyprus due to lack of provision in canon law 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 in a coma. A Pan-Orthodox Synod was convoked by Patriarch Bartholomew I of Constantinople in Chambésy (Switzerland) 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. Chrysostomos I died on 22 December 2007.
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