A lifelong scholar, he sought to reclaim the great, but dispersed, collection of books within the capital, as there was no central library.
He made it a practice to acquire the book collections of deceased powerful men and then had the patriarchal staff recopy them.
[3] Within religious matters, he pushed the trend of making the patriarchal clergy, rather than the monastic community, the authoritative voice of Orthodoxy.
[4] He also convened a council in Constantinople in 1117 which condemned the doctrine of Eustratius of Nicaea as Nestorian, despite the defence offered by the Patriarch.
[5] During his patriarchate some efforts were made by Emperor Alexios I Komnenos to bridge the schism between the Orthodox and the Catholic Church but these failed, as Pope Paschal II in late 1112 pressed the demand that the Patriarch of Constantinople recognise the Papal primacy over "all the churches of God throughout the world".