Update from the Vacancy-in-See Committee
A message from the Vacancy-in-See Committee on the progress of its continuing work. The Committee has met regularly and confidentially by Zoom, and has taken advice from the Archbishop of…
Maggie moves on
Retreats Facilitator Maggie Le-Roy is leaving the Diocese to join the Transforming Southall and Hounslow team at St John’s in London, where she will be responsible for setting up a…
Fr Alec for Kyrenia
The new parish priest of St Andrew Kyrenia, licensed by Bishop Michael on Trinity Sunday, 4 June, is the Reverend Alec Mitchell. Fr Alec, after a substantial and distinguished ministry in…
Deryneia: a memorial garden royal
The Mayor of Deryneia, in Cyprus, Andros Karayiannis, joined the Reverend Peter Day to open the St John Deryneia parish garden in memory of the late Queen Elizabeth II and…
Canon Georgia installed
On 23 May Mrs Georgia Katsantonis, PA to successive bishops and a key liaison for the whole diocese, was installed as an ecumenical lay canon at St Paul's Cathedral in…
Cyprus Social Outreach Forum 2023
More than 20 organisations from across Cyprus met in the buffer zone between north and south on 10 May, to discuss the challenges of protecting and supporting the most vulnerable…
Provincial Synod 2023
The Anglican Province of Jerusalem and the Middle East—also referred to as the Episcopal Church in Jerusalem and the Middle East—held its annual meeting of Synod on 12 May 2023,…
Vacancy-in-See Committee update
An update on the search for a new diocesan bishop from the Venerable Christopher Futcher, Convenor of the Vacancy-in-See CommitteeThe Committee has received the names of 20 potential candidates from around…
Iran in Cyprus
Five people, both clergy and lay, from Anglican churches in Iran have recently spent time in Cyprus. Archbishop Michael had invited them to join him and others for two days…
Canon Georgia: a first
Archbishop Michael, after consultation with the Very Reverend Jeremy Crocker, Dean of Nicosia, has appointed Mrs Georgia Katsantonis as an Ecumenical Lay Canon of St Paul's Cathedral. Since the 1980s…