Our Church in Cyprus a Sermon volume Talbot Span Classsearchtermspan Cl
Our Church in Cyprus a Sermon volume Talbot Span Classsearchtermspan Cl
C W Charles Waldegrave Sandford
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If we have read anything of ecclesiastical history, we must remember the jealousy with which those rights have been always guarded. We know how in the fifth century the neighbouring See of Antioch, availing itself of the opportunity presented by the political subjection of Cyprus to Antioch, attempted to bring it into ecclesiastical subjection also. We know how stoutly the attempt was resisted, and the threatened rights maintained. Whether we regard the statement put forward by the Metropolitan... of this island and his suffragans at the Council of Ephesus that "never from the apostolic age had any extraneous hand imparted to Cyprus the gift of ordination, " as having been proved or not, the Council decreed, as though the statement had been proved, that the Prelates of Cyprus should " enjoy the rights they claimed of allegiance to no Patriarch, free from molestation and violence. " When fifty years later in the face of this decree the See of Antioch once more revived its claim of authority over the island, we know how successfully it was again resisted, and how the ques- tion was finally set at rest for ever by the alleged discovery in the neighbourhood of Constantia of the body of St.
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