Cyril V of Constantinople

Cyril V
Ecumenical Patriarch of Constantinople
ChurchChurch of Constantinople
In office28 September 1748 – end May 1751
7 September 1752 – 16 January 1757
Previous post(s)Metropolitan of Nicomedia
Personal details
Bornunknown
Died27 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]

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