Archbishop declines invite to hold Church service in the north

ARCHBISHOP Chrysostomos II said yesterday that Turkish Cypriot leader Dervis Eroglu had proposed to him that the Holy Synod celebrate yesterday’s mass honouring St Barnabas at the Church of St Barnabas in the occupied areas but that he had refused as he did not think it would be appropriate. Instead the mass of the patron saint of Cyprus was held by him at a church in Dasoupolis the Republic, while the mass in the occupied areas was held by the Bishop of Famagusta.

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