Cyriacus

Holy Hierarch Cyriacus was a patriarch of Constantinople and is commemorated in the Greek calendar on 30 October (new style), together with the patriarch Joseph. The calendar page links him to Patriarch Cyriacus II.

Of his companion in the commemoration the synaxarion says that Joseph lived in the thirteenth century. He became a hieromonk after the death of his wife and succeeded Germanus III on the patriarchal throne in 1268. In 1275 he resigned, because Emperor Michael had signed, without the will of clergy and people, the union with the papal Church at Lyons. On 31 October 1282 he returned to the throne and made many wearisome journeys to restore Orthodox church order. In March 1283, exhausted by his labours, he gave up his spirit to God. About Cyriacus the sources consulted contain no particulars of his own.