Archbishop of America: “Cyprus is one of the most glorious civilizational emergences in the history of the world”

“Cyprus is one of the most glorious civilizational emergences in the history of the world,” Archbishop Elpidophoros of America told the Federation of Cypriot American Organizations at its annual Testimonial Dinner on Friday evening, September 25. “We must persevere in prayer, in hope, and in effective action to bring about a future of Cyprus that does justice to its past.”

The dinner, at Terrace on the Park in Queens, also marked the Federation’s 75th anniversary. The Archbishop shared its honorary chairmanship with President Nikos Christodoulides of Cyprus, who was in New York for the United Nations General Assembly. Archbishop Elpidophoros opened the program with the invocation and closed it with the benediction.

John Josephakis, NVIDIA’s global vice president of sales and business development for supercomputing, received the Lifetime Achievement Award. Community Service Awards went to Stavros A. Kamilaris, president of the Lampousa Cypriot American Association, and Despina Axiotakis, a past general secretary of the Federation. Both have roots in associations that helped found the Federation in 1951: Mr. Kamilaris leads Lampousa, and Mrs. Axiotakis once led the women’s…