Canon Georgia Katsantonis is to bid farewell to the Diocese of Cyprus and the Gulf on 31 July 2026, after more than 40 years’ service. Please join Bishop Sean and Jenny in holding Georgia and her family in your prayers.

Canon Georgia joined the Diocese in 1984, as PA to the Right Reverend Harry Moore, second bishop of the Diocese. In addition to supporting the work—and families—of successive bishops and the central Diocesan Office, Georgia also served for a period in the role of Provincial Secretary.

At her installation in May 2023 as an ecumenical lay canon at St Paul’s Cathedral in Nicosia—the first such canon in the Diocese—Bishop Michael Lewis noted Georgia’s “remarkably long and devoted service and her accumulated shrewd wisdom and knowledge: an observant Orthodox laywoman who knows more about the ways and varieties of worldwide as well as local Anglicanism than most Anglicans”.

Georgia (left) with colleagues Helen and Anetta.

Georgia will be greatly missed by so many, in parishes across Cyprus and the Gulf, and especially by her colleagues in her home from home, the Diocesan Offices in Nicosia.

Ascension Day Service. St Andrew’s Church.
Thursday 14th May at 10.30

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It is with enormous sadness that we report the death on Thursday of David Birt, beloved husband of Sally.

We pray for David, for Sally and for their children Susannah, Stephen, Simon and Charles.

David’s funeral will take place at Green Hill Cemetery on Tuesday 19th May at 10.30 am.

Many at St Andrew’s will be sad to hear of the death of Jewel Pearce this morning.

Jewel was a faithful member of St Andrew’s and was Hall Manager for a time. She lived in Cyprus with her husband, John, who is buried at Green Hill.

Some years after John died, Jewel returned to England to a nursing home in Milton Keynes, close to one of her daughters. Jewel also has a daughter in New Zealand.

We pray for Jewel, give thanks for her life, and hold her family in our thoughts and our prayers.

It was a joy to have Henry Ikediego with us on Sunday, acting as Deacon.

Bishop Sean asks us to hold Henry in our prayers, as he prepares for his ordination to the diaconate, at 4pm on 6 June 2026 at St Mark Famagusta, where he will also serve.

In the meantime, Henry will be with us again at St Andrew’s on May 17th.

Henry has served St Mark’s in Famagusta – the only other Anglican Church in North Cyprus – for many years and is greatly loved and appreciated by the largely student congregation there. Henry O. Ikediego