[muh-kar-ee-uh
s, -ohs; Gk. mah-kah-ree-aws] 
| (Michael Christodoulos Mouskos), 1913–77, Cypriot statesman and Greek Orthodox prelate: archbishop and patriarch of Cyprus 1950–77; president 1960–77 (in exile 1974). |
| Ma·kar·i·os III (mə-kār'ē-əs, -ōs', mä-kä'rē-ôs) Cypriot prelate and politician. Bishop of the Orthodox Church of Cyprus (1950-1977), he supported the political unification of Cyprus and Greece and was the first president of independent Cyprus (1959-1977). |