In 1629, in Geneva, there appeared in Latin, under the name of Cyril Loukaris, who was then the Patriarch of Constantinople, the so-called "Eastern Confession of the Christian Faith," which was then translated and published into English, French and German in 1631, and finally translated into Greek in 1633. This text allegedly by the Patriarch of Constantinople was meant to be a response to Roman Catholics and contained Calvinist doctrines. The Synod of Constantinople in 1638 anathematized both this confession and Patriarch Cyril, but the Synod of Jerusalem in 1672, which dealt specifically with Cyril's case, completely justified him, testifying that the Synod of Constantinople cursed Cyril not because it considered him the author of the Confession, but because Cyril did not write a refutation of this work attributed to him.
