Background
VENIAMIN, Christodoulos was born in 1922. Parents: Veniamin Efstathiou and Eleni Veniamin.
VENIAMIN, Christodoulos was born in 1922. Parents: Veniamin Efstathiou and Eleni Veniamin.
Primary School, Kato Moni. Secondary school, Nicosia. Inns of Court, London, Law.
Spoken languages: Greek, English, French, Turkish.
Junior officer. Government service, since 1942. Member, administrative cadre, since 1949. Junior Administrative Officer, Nicosia District.
Executive Officer for state forest village resettlement. Assistant Secretary in Secretariat, Depts. of Local Government and Administration, Personnel, Finance, Commerce and Industry, Social Services, Communications and Works and Agriculture and Natural Resources. Assistant District Comnr., Lamaca.
Assistant Secretary, Ministry of Interior. District Officer, Limassol District, 1960-1968. Director-General, Ministry of Foreign Affairs, 1968-1975.
Minister of the Interior and Defence, 1975-1985. Minister of the Interior, since 1988.
Greek Orthodox.
Honorary Society of Middle Temple. Clubs: United Oxford and Cambridge. University Club, London, United Kingdom.
Walking, reading.