Ioannis Clerides member of the Colony's Executive Council (under the British colonial government) but resigned in 1956, protesting the deportation of Archbishop Makarios III to the Seychelles. In 1959 he was a candidate for President in Cyprus' first presidential election in 1959, with the support of AKEL, but was defeated by Archbishop Makarios III. Notably, his own son, Glafcos Clerides, supported Makarios over his father. He was awarded the QC and CBE by the British government. Ioannis Clerides died in 1961, aged 74. Ioannis Clerides Ioannis Clerides or John Clerides (Greek: Ιωάννης Κληρίδης, 1887 - 1961) was a Greek Cypriot lawyer and
Makarios (Tillyrides) Makarios (Tillyrides) Archbishop Makarios (born Andreas Tillyrides; Limassol, 1945) is a Cypriot hierarch in Africa, since 2001 Archbishop of Nairobi. Andreas Tillyrides was born in 1945 in Limassol, Cyprus. He studied from 1968 to 1972 at the St. Sergius Orthodox Theological Institute, while studying in the "Collège de France" and the "École Pratique des Hautes Études", afterwards pursuing post-graduation in Church History at Oxford University under Kallistos Ware, receiving a PhD in 1976. In the following year, under Archbishop Makarios III's orientation, Andreas went to Nairobi to organise an Orthodox seminary. In 1992, he was tonsured a monk under the