Cyril II of Constantinople explained

Church:	Church of Constantinople
Archbishop Of:	Ecumenical Patriarch of Constantinople
Term:	7–11 October 1633 10 March 1635 – June 1636 20 June 1638 – end of June 1639
Predecessor:	Cyril Lucaris
Successor:	Cyril Lucaris, Neophytus III of Constantinople, Parthenius I of Constantinople
Birth Date:	unknown
Death Date:	1640

Cyril II Kontares (Greek, Modern (1453-);: Κύριλλος Κονταρῆς; died June 1640) was three-time Ecumenical Patriarch of Constantinople (1633, 1635–1636, 1638–1639).^[1] He was from Veroia, coming to Constantinople in 1618.^[2]

Cyril Lucaris' popularity among high clergy made leadership more difficult for Cyril II, who had to contend with their undermining of his authority.^[3]

Though recognized as a true Patriarch,^[4] he made a Catholic profession of faith.^[5]

Notes and References

1. Book: The Oxford handbook of the reception of Aquinas . 2021 . Matthew Levering, Marcus Plested . 978-0-19-184090-6 . Oxford . 196 . 1232018294.
2. Charles A. Frazee, Catholics & Sultans: The Church and the Ottoman Empire 1453-1923 (Cambridge University Press, 2006), p. 93
3. Eleni Gara and Ovidiu Olar, "5. CONFESSION-BUILDING AND AUTHORITY: THE GREAT CHURCH AND THE OTTOMAN STATE IN THE FIRST HALF OF THE SEVENTEENTH CENTURY", in Entangled Confessionalizations? (edited by Tijana Krstić and Derin Terzioğlu; Gorgias Press, 2022). (p. 183-184)
4. https://ec-patr.org/oikoymeniko-patriarxeio/istoria/diatelesantes-patriarxes/ Κατάλογος Οικουμενικών Πατριαρχών
5. Vasileios Tsakiris, The ‘Ecclesiarum Belgicarum Confessio’ and the Attempted ‘Calvinisation’ of the Orthodox Church under Patriarch Cyril Loukaris (The Journal of Ecclesiastical History, Volume 63, Issue 3, July 2012, pp. 475-487). "To be sure, the Ecclesiarum Belgicarum Confessio was the symbol, so to speak, of the Protestant-Orthodox union. For, right after Loukaris's death, his pro-Catholic adversary, Cyril II Kontares, who replaced him on the ecumenical throne, sent to Rome, which had always supported him in his struggle against Loukaris, a Roman Catholic confession of faith. In addition he published the following decision of the (patriarchal) synod: Those who read the Book of the Βelgic Confession, which begins (as follows): ‘We believe … all with [our] heart’; and the chapters bearing the name of Cyril, of which the first is: ‘We believe in the one true God’, they are anathematised; and, in general, those not obeying all holy and ecumenical councils are anathematised."