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2 unusual facts about Cyril Lucaris


Cyril Lucaris

According to a 1659 letter to Thomas Greaves from Edward Pococke (who, on his book-hunting travels for archbishop William Laud, had met Lucaris) many of the choicest manuscripts from Lucaris' library were saved by the Dutch ambassador who sent them by ship to Holland.

Patriarch Cyril of Constantinople

Cyril Lucaris (Patriarch Cyril I Lucaris), patriarch for six terms between 1612 and 1638



see also

Patriarch Gregory IV of Constantinople

The latter were successful at persuading the Grand Vizier to depose Cyril Lucaris on 12 April 1623 and to appoint in his place Gregory IV, the head of the pro-Western faction.