Suspended Metropolitan Tychikos spared further punishment for now over refusal to drop court case

The suspended Metropolitan of Paphos, Tychikos, has informally been given another chance, with no move for now to defrock him over his continued refusal to withdraw legal proceedings before Cyprus’s courts. Tychikos had previously been warned not to take his case to the courts, or, if he had already done so, to withdraw any claims.

The development follows the Supreme Court’s decision on his request for a prerogative writ of Certiorari against the Holy Synod of the Ecumenical Patriarchate’s...