Cyril V | |
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Ecumenical Patriarch of Constantinople | |
Church | Church of Constantinople |
In office | 28 September 1748 – end May 1751 7 September 1752 – 16 January 1757 |
Previous post(s) | Metropolitan of Nicomedia |
Personal details | |
Born | unknown |
Died | 27 July 1775 Mount Athos |
Cyril V Karakallos (Greek: Κύριλλος Καράκαλλος; died 27 July 1775) was Ecumenical Patriarch of Constantinople for two periods from 1748 to 1751 and from 1752 to 1757.
A controversial figure, often blamed for his ideas about the baptism,[1] in 1755 he issued the Oros, a canonical document which, superseding the previous use of accepting Christian converts by Chrismation, stated that all non-Orthodox (including Catholic) baptisms were not valid and all converts needed to be re-baptized.[2]