en Cyril II of Constantinople

Cyril II of Constantinople
Cyril II of Constantinople
Ecumenical Patriarch of Constantinople
Church	Church of Constantinople
In office	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
Personal details
Born	unknown
Died	1640

Cyril II Kontares (Greek: 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]

References

^ The Oxford handbook of the reception of Aquinas. Matthew Levering, Marcus Plested. Oxford. 2021. p. 196. ISBN 978-0-19-184090-6. OCLC 1232018294.{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: location missing publisher (link) CS1 maint: others (link)
^ Charles A. Frazee, Catholics & Sultans: The Church and the Ottoman Empire 1453-1923 (Cambridge University Press, 2006), p. 93
^ 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)
^ Κατάλογος Οικουμενικών Πατριαρχών (List of Patriarchs; see Κύριλλος Βʹ (α) - 1633 μ.Χ.) (in Greek). Ecumenical Patriarchate of Constantinople. Retrieved 29 November 2022.
^ 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."

Preceded by Cyril I	Ecumenical Patriarch of Constantinople 1633	Succeeded by Cyril I
	Ecumenical Patriarch of Constantinople 1635–1636	Succeeded by Neophytus III
	Ecumenical Patriarch of Constantinople 1638–1639	Succeeded by Parthenius I

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[1] The Oxford handbook of the reception of Aquinas. Matthew Levering, Marcus Plested. Oxford. 2021. p. 196. ISBN 978-0-19-184090-6. OCLC 1232018294.{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: location missing publisher (link) CS1 maint: others (link)

[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] Κατάλογος Οικουμενικών Πατριαρχών (List of Patriarchs; see Κύριλλος Βʹ (α) - 1633 μ.Χ.) (in Greek). Ecumenical Patriarchate of Constantinople. Retrieved 29 November 2022.

[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."

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