Makarios Tillyrides

[citation needed] 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.

Archbishop Makarios can speak, apart from his native Greek, English, French, Russian, Italian, plus several African dialects.

[citation needed] Under his direction, the Orthodox Church has translated liturgical texts even to some dialects that had never been written before.