NICOSIA, Cyprus (AP) — Cyprus police say grave robbers have stolen the remains of two Archbishops who led the island's Greek Orthodox church in the late 19th and early 20th centuries.
Police spokesman Michalis Katsounotos says the Archbishops' coffins were found missing early Sunday after officers responded to a fire at a downtown Nicosia graveyard where the tombs of Sofronios III and Kyrillos II are located.
No motive for the theft was given.
The Archbishops led the Cypriot church between 1865 and 1916.
The theft comes days after the stolen corpse of the island's former president Tassos Papadopoulos was found and reburied. Three men — including a convicted murderer serving life in prison — face charges of extortion over the Dec. 11 theft.
