Studies on the History of the Church of Cyprus, 4th-20th Centuries

Variorum
Benedict Englezakis
ISBN: 086078486X
price: $119.95   hardcover

At the time of his death in 1992, Benedict (Father Paul) Englezakis left behind him twenty important articles on various aspects of the Church in Cyprus, from the time of its foundation until the end of Ottoman domination and the British presence. These twenty articles are gathered together in this volume constitute what he accomplished of his attempt to chronicle the full history of the Church of Cyprus.
Several of the papers, some delivered as lectures, are published here for the first time; others have been specifically translated for this volume. The articles are preceded by a substantial introduction, in which the author, before his death, reviewed his work and analyzed contemporary scholarship on the subject.
This volume represents the most important contribution in English for many decades to the history of the Church of Cyprus, a history that has been inextricably bound up with the history of the island as a whole during the Christian era.
Contents: List of Illustrations; Foreword; Translator's Note; Abbreviations; Introduction; Epiphanius of Salamis, the Father of the Cypriot Autocephaly; The Church of Cyprus in the Byzantine Empire (AD 300-1191); Cyprus, Nea Justinianoupolis; The Position of Cyprus in the Episcopal Lists of the Seventh Ecumenical Council; John Chrysostomites, a Twelfth-century Patriarch of Jerusalem; The Commentary of St Neophytos the Recluse on the Canons of the Twelve Dominical Feasts; An Unpublished Commentary by St Neophytos the Recluse on the Apocalypse; An Unpublished Catechetical Instruction by St Neophytos the Recluse on the Transfiguration; St Neophytos the Recluse and the Beginnings of Frankish Rule in Cyprus; St Neophytos the Recluse, Homilies on the Sermon on the Mount; Cyprus as a Stepping-stone between West and East in the Age of the Crusades: the Two Churches; An Unpublished Letter in Slavonic from Archbishop Christodoulos I to the Tsar Michael Feodorovich Romanov; The Church of Cyprus in the Eighteenth and Nineteenth Centuries; Archbishop Kyprianos's Inkstand; The Canonical Decision of Konstantios, Archbishop of Sinai, on the Election and Deposition of Archbishop of Cyprus; The Last Known Document of the Ethnomartyr, Archbishop Kyprianos, 16 May 1821; On the Fourth Leontii Martyred in Cyprus after the Events of 1821; The Four Leontii Revisited; The Antiochene Question of 1897-1899. An Unpublished Journal of C.I. Myrianthopoulos; The Church of Cyprus from 1878 to 1995; Bibliographies; Index.