June 27 (Eastern Orthodox liturgics)

June 26 - Eastern Orthodox Church calendar - June 28 All fixed commemorations below celebrated on July 10 by Orthodox Churches on the Old Calendar.

"The Catholic Church used all its religious and political influence to destroy this "son of darkness": the Jesuits and Capuchins of Constantinople, the French and Austrian ambassadors, the newly constituted Propaganda Fidei, Pope Urban VIII himself and even Louis XIII and the powerful Cardinal Richelieu.

Almost any means of attacking Loukaris were regarded as legitimate because the motive was "sacred": these included threats and violence, bribing Turkish officials and pro-Catholic clerics in the circle of his successor Cyril Kontares, forging texts incriminating Loukaris, and claiming that the patriarch was inciting foreign powers against the Ottoman Empire.

The Austrian Embassy planned Loukaris' assas[s]ination or his abduction to Italy and delivered to the Holy Inquisition.

Eventually the Austrian ambassador and Kontares persuaded the Sublime Porte to eliminate the patriarch and he was strangled on June 27, 1638.