biography
| name: |
Lucaris or Lukaris, Cyril
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pronunciation:
[lukahris]
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| male
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| lived:
| (1572–1638)
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| biography:
| Orthodox theologian, born in Candia, Crete, Greece. He studied in Venice, Padua, and Geneva, and by 1621 had become Patriarch of Constantinople. He opened negotiations with the Calvinists of England and Holland with a view to union and the reform of the Greek Church, and presented the Alexandrian Codex to Charles I. The Jesuits five times brought about his deposition, and are supposed by the Greeks to have instigated his murder by the Turks in 1637. |
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