METROPOLITAN CHRYSOSTOMOS OF KITIUM
Date of Consecration:
October 26, 1973
Date of Election:
October 24, 1973
Date of Elevation to Archimandrite:
1970
Date of Ordination to the Priesthood:
July 7, 1970
Date of Monastic Tonsure:
1958
Date of Ordination to the Diaconate:
1955
Date of Birth:
June 1938
Name Day:
January 27
Biography
Metropolitan Chrysostomos was born in June 1938. In 1958, he became a novice of the Maheras Monastery. He studied in the Business School in Cyprus's gymnasium.
In 1955 he was ordained a deacon. From 1962 until 1970, he studied in the Legal and Theological Faculties of the University of Athens. On June 7, 1970, he was ordained a presbyter with the elevation to archimandrite in the Maheras Monastery.
On October 24, 1973, he was elected Metropolitan of Kitium. His episcopal consecration took place on October 26, 1973.
His name day is January 27.
Sergei Kozlov
Translated from the Russian by Daryle Lamoureux
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