other · 478 · Salamis
Peter the Fuller of Antioch pressed the claim that Cyprus had been evangelised from Antioch and owed it obedience. Archbishop Anthemios answered that Cyprus had an apostle of its own, and was then — by the account — shown the grave in a dream: the body of Barnabas outside Salamis with a copy of Matthew on its breast. He carried the book to Constantinople. Zeno confirmed the autocephaly of the Church of Cyprus and granted its archbishop the three privileges it still keeps, of signing in cinnabar, wearing purple and carrying an imperial sceptre. The dream and the discovery are legend-shaped; the settlement is documented, and Cyprus has been autocephalous ever since. The two things are separated here rather than blended.
To answer Antioch's claim that Cyprus was its suffragan and not an apostolic church in its own right.
Cypriot autocephaly, and an archbishop who signs in red ink to this day.