Makarios III

Archbishop primate, primate & 1st President of Cyprus (1913–1977)

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Lived 1913–1977, aged 64
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    1913–1977
    Aged 64
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Archbishop turned independence leader who steered Cyprus out of British colonial rule and into statehood as its first president, guiding the young republic through Cold War turbulence and internal division between 1960 and 1977.

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Makarios III was a Greek Cypriot prelate and politician who served as Archbishop of the Church of Cyprus from 1950 to 1977 and as the first president of Cyprus between 1960 and July 1974, with a second term between December 1974 and 1977. He is widely regarded as the founding father or "Ethnarch" of the Republic of Cyprus, leading its transition from British colonial rule.

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