URUGUAY

URUGUAY.

Visit of Archbishop Makarios, president of Chypre.
Stylized map of the island of Cyprus and portrait of Archbishop Makarios.
Airmail stamp issued on 15.02.1967.
Face value: 6.60 Uruguayan pesos.
Design: Ángel Medina Medina (1914-1980).
Printed in the Imprenta Nacional, Montevideo.

Catalogues
- StampWorld No. 1068.
- Yvert et Tellier, PA 305.

Makarios III (Μακάριος Γ΄), born Michael Christodoulou Mouskos (Μιχαήλ Χριστοδούλου Μούσκος) in Ano Panayia (Paphos District) on 13 August 1913, died in Nicosia on 3 August 1977, was a Cypriot clergyman and politician who served as the archbishop and primate of the autocephalous Church of Cyprus (1950–1977) and as the first president of the Republic of Cyprus (1960–1977).