Archbishop Chrysostomos II of Cyprus

Archbishop Chrysostomos II, Archbishop of Nova Justiniana and All Cyprus (Greek: "Χρυσόστομος Β΄", born Ηρόδοτος Δημητρίου, "Hēródotos Dēmētríou" on April 10, 1941) is the incumbent Archbishop of Cyprus.

He was born in Tala village, Paphos. At the age of 10 he lost his father and two years later, since he loved letters and religion, after he finished elementary education, he joined the monastery of Ayios Neophytos in Paphos. At the same time, attended Paphos Gymnasium and graduated in 1963. On November 3, of the same year, he was ordained deacon by the then Bishop of Trimithounda, Georgios.

For five years, he served as trustee of the monastery and also he worked in a ranch and he cultivated with the tractor and in 1968, he enrolled in the Theological School of the University of Athens and graduated in 1972. On October 19, 1972, he was elected as the hegumen of the Monastery of St. Neophytos. On November 12, 1972, he was ordained a presbyter and was elevated to hegumen (abbot) by Archbishop Makarios III.

During the Makarios III's presidency, he always supported Makarios and was with his side and was against the Junta of Athens and the those three metropolitans who did the Ecclesiastical coup.

He was elected Metropolitan (Bishop) of Paphos on February 25, 1978. His episcopal consecration on February 26, 1978. During his time as a bishop, he participated in many conferences in Cyprus and abroad, representing the Autocephalous of the Church of Cyprus, 50 new regional temples in the Paphos District were built and decade chapels, while he has maintained and attended all the churches of his metropolitan periphery to be in an excellent situation and also he founded five byzantine museums where there are church treasures of Paphos District.He played important and catalytic role in the confrontation of irregularities and phenomena of mismanagement in the Archdiocese, rescuing important part of Ecclesiastical fortune, daring it involves changes in a rendered system.

When Archbishop Chrysostomos I was removed from office (due to illness), Metropolitan Chrysostomus was elected as locum tenens, and Archiepiscopal elections were set for September 24, 2006. In October 2006, Metropolitan Chrysostomos became the new Archbishop of Cyprus as "Chrysostomus II".

See also

*List of Archbishops of Cyprus