In the footsteps of St. Paul in Pafos

Follow in St Paul's footsteps and visit the places where he preached and spread Christianity.

Although he was not one of Jesus' close circle of students, Paul became an Apostle as a result of his divine calling, thereby taking on the heavy burden of spreading the Gospel. Paul was fortunate in that he combined three elements essential to the role he was assigned. First he was a Jew, characterised by a fighting spirit and a streak of stubbornness, secondly he had a Greek education, spirit and soul, and third he was a Roman citizen, with an open passport in a vast empire that reached the limits of the known world at the time.

In 45 AD the two Apostles Paul and Barnabas, accompanied by Mark, travelled from Antioch to Silesia and from there by ship to Cyprus, arriving at Salamis, the largest port on the island at the time. (Acts 13.5)

In Pafos they managed to convert the Roman Proconsul who embraced the Christian faith thereby making Cyprus the first country in the world to be governed by a Christian.

His arrival in Pafos

The church of Agia Kyriaki Chrysopolitissa

The house of Theseus / Mosaics

St. Paul's departure