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Career banker Christodoulos Patsalides was appointed governor of the Central Bank of Cyprus on Monday for a five-year term, the island's presidency said.

Patsalides, who will represent Cyprus on the rate-setting Governing Council of the ECB, takes up his duties on April 11, replacing Constantinos Herodotou.

Archbishop Ieronymos, the leader of the Orthodox Church of Greece, supposedly took a relatively soft stance on the issue of same-sex marriage.

Greek visual artist Christodoulos Galtemis (b. 1954) presents his 20th solo exhibition under the broad title "Flowers and Fruit" at the Argo Gallery (argo-gallery.gr). The visual images the artist presents are detailed and precise, yet at the same time initiating viewers into a subtle dialogue of light and shadow deconstructing realism before their eyes. The opening is on December 5 at 7 p.m.

About 5,000 people gathered in Thessaloniki Sunday to protest against a new type of identity card to be introduced later this month, police said. 

The Cyprus Chamber of Commerce and Industry (CCCI) agrees with Nicosia's priority to bring natural gas το Cyprus, in order to produce cheap electricity, said CCCI President Christodoulos Angastiniotis, after a meeting held between the CCCI and the country's President Nikos Christodoulides on Tuesday. 

Wargaming Group, a Cypriot technology company, intends to remain a shareholder in Hellenic Bank, Cyprus' second largest lender.

Despite selling a 13.41% stake to Greek banking group Eurobank in early December, Wargaming says its goal now is to focus on what it says it "does best," which is creating good games.

The Archbishop of Athens has come under criticism in Greece for quietly raising the costs of church funerals during the pandemic by up to 250 per cent without any warning or explanation to funeral homes and the families of the deceased.

By George Gilson

Back in the early 1980's when Archbishop Seraphim was at the height of his power and clashing openly (and successfully) with Andreas Papandreou over his bid for state expropriation of monastic lands and properties (attempted by his ill-fated minister Antonis Tritsis) ) Church-State relations were sorely tested.

The request on Monday by Spanish EU Affairs Minister Jorge Toledo Albinana for a meeting with Greece's ambassador in Madrid Christodoulos Lazaris was, according to diplomatic sources, an expression of Spain's desire to end a diplomatic spat with Athens over the Catalan independence drive.  

Shipowner Michalis Zolotas, accused of bribery and other crimes, will be extradited to Cyprus to stand trial, according to a decision by Greece's Supreme Court on Friday.