Patriarch of Constantinople

Cyril Lucaris

Born: 1572
Died: 1638

Cretan-born churchman, Patriarch of Alexandria (1601) and several times Patriarch of Constantinople (from 1620), who corresponded with Protestant scholars and sent the Codex Alexandrinus to Charles I. His Confession of Faith (Latin, Geneva 1629; Greek 1633) was read by many as Calvinist in substance, a character disputed then and since; he was put to death in 1638, and the Synod of Jerusalem (1672) under Dositheus repudiated the Confession and denied that it expressed Orthodox teaching.

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The Confession of Faith (1629 English Translation)

The first English printing of Cyril Lucaris's 1629 Confession, issued in London the same year as the Geneva Latin edition: eighteen unnumbered articles on the Trinity, Scripture, predestination, justification by faith, the Church, the sacraments and the state of the dead, in contemporary English with original spelling.

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The Eastern Confession of the Christian Faith (Robertson Translation)

Cyril Lucaris's Confession in the later Greek form (dated January 1631): eighteen chapters on God, Scripture, predestination, creation, providence, sin, Christ's mediation, faith, the Church, justification, free will, the sacraments and the departed, followed by four Questions on reading Scripture in the vernacular, its clarity, the canon and icons. Translated by J. N. W. B. Robertson as an appendix to the Acts of the Synod of Jerusalem (1672), which answered it.

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