Boy George has returned a stolen damaged icon of Jesus Christ Pantokrator to Bishop Porfyrios of Neapolis, the Cyprus Orthodox Church's representative in Brussels, at a ceremony in the hall of the temple of the Holy Anargyroi in Highgate, after the Bishop saw it in a Dutch TV interview with Boy George in his London home, and suspected it to have been stolen after the 1974 invasion of Cyprus by Turkey in 1974.
 
"We researched and found the icon came from the Church of St Charalambous in the occupied village of New Chorio Kithreas," Bishop Porfyrios told the BBC. He then contacted Boy George who said that he bought the icon from an art dealer in the Kings Road in 1985 in good faith, did not know it came from occupied Cyprus, and was happy to return it.
 
The icon is a 300-year-old image of Jesus, produced in the Byzantine style in the Heraclidios monastery near Nicosia, which produced icons for most of the churches in Cyprus in the 18th century. The left side was missing due to aging and deterioration, and the background is gold leaf.