Thanks to the intercession of the French ambassador, in 1586 Jeremias II obtained the freedom from the exile in Rhodes and started his travel through the Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth (which included also Ukraine) and the Tsardom of Russia to raise funds.

[6] On his way back to Constantinople, Jeremias II deposed the Metropolitan of Kiev Onesiphorus Devochka [ru; uk], and in his place appointed and consecrated Michael Rohoza.

[7] In April 1587 Jeremias II was formally re-elected as Patriarch, but due to his absence for his travel the Church went on being governed by the replacement cleric, deacon Nicephorus.

On 24 May 1575, Lutherans Jakob Andreae and Martin Crusius from Tübingen presented the Patriarch with a translated copy of the Augsburg Confession.

Jeremias II wrote three rebuttals known as "Answers", which established that the Eastern Orthodox Church had no desire for reformation.

The significance of the exchanges were that they presented, for the first time in a precise and clear way, where the Orthodox and Reformation churches stood in relation to each other.