Joseph Violaris
Mayor of Kyrenia
He was born in Kyrenia in 1956.
His parents, Miltiadis Violaris and Eleni Violaris, come from the family of the Metropolitan of Kyrenia and later Archbishop, Makarios II.
He attended the Elementary School and then the High School of our city, from where he graduated in 1974.
After serving in the National Guard, where he served as a reserve second lieutenant of Communications, he studied at the Dental School of the University of Athens, from which he graduated in 1982.
Since 1982 he maintains a private dental practice in Nicosia, which was renamed in 2006 to “Implant Dentistry Centre at Nicosia”
In 1996 he was trained at Faulkner Hospital in Boston, USA and in 2006 at the American Academy of Implant Dentistry in implantology.
He served for many years as President of the Nicosia – Kyrenia Dental Association, Vice-President of the Pancyprian Dental Association and President of the Cyprus Dentists Disciplinary Council.
From 2011 to 2021 he served as a volunteer dentist in a team of volunteer doctors of the Pancyprian Organization Against the Scourge of Hunger in various African countries such as Kenya, Uganda, Tanzania and Madagascar.
He is married to Dentist Anastasia Pegiazi, from Kazafani, Kyrenia and has three children, Miltiadis, Lawyer, Morfo, Chartered Accountant and Eleni, Mathematician.