1. Cyril Lucaris later became the Greek Patriarch of Alexandria as Cyril III and Ecumenical Patriarch of Constantinople as Cyril I Cyril Lucaris has been said to have attempted a reform of the Eastern Orthodox Church along Calvinist Protestant lines.
Attempts to bring Calvinism into the Orthodox Church were rejected, and Cyril I's actions, motivations, and specific viewpoints remain a matter of debate among scholars.
Cyril Lucaris I is locally venerated as a hieromartyr in the Alexandrian Orthodox Church; the Holy Synod of the Patriarchate of Alexandria glorified Loukaris on 6 October 2009, and his memory is commemorated on 27 June.
Cyril Lucaris pursued theological studies in Venice and Padua, Wittenberg and Geneva where he developed greater antipathy for Roman Catholicism.
For six years Cyril Lucaris served as professor of the Orthodox academy in Vilnius.
In 1601, Cyril Lucaris was installed as the Patriarch of Alexandria at the age of twenty-nine.
Cyril Lucaris would continue to hold this office for twenty years, until his elevation to the Ecumenical Patriarchate of Constantinople.
Cyril Lucaris's first act was to found a theological seminary in Mount Athos, the Athoniada school.
Cyril Lucaris sponsored Maximos of Gallipoli to produce the first translation of the New Testament in Modern Greek.
Cyril Lucaris I's aim was to reform the Eastern Orthodox Church along Calvinistic lines, and to this end he sent many young Greek theologians to the universities of Switzerland, the northern Netherlands and England.
Cyril Lucaris I was particularly well disposed towards the Church of England, and corresponded with the Archbishops of Canterbury.
Cyril Lucaris I was several times temporarily deposed and banished at the instigation of both his Orthodox opponents and the French and Austrian ambassadors, while he was supported by the Protestant Dutch and English ambassadors to the Ottoman capital.
Cyril Lucaris's body was thrown into the sea, but it was recovered and buried at a distance from the capital by his friends, and only brought back to Constantinople after many years.
Cyril Lucaris I was honoured as a saint and martyr shortly after his death, and Eugenios of Aitolia compiled an Acolouthia to celebrate his memory.