As a metropolitan of Kyrenia, he made significant efforts to persuade the Linobabakoi (Christians who had converted to Islam) to rejoin the church.

During his authority under that metropolis, the first Greek flag in Cyprus was raised in the Trooditissa Monastery on 6 September 1902.

Their antagonism flared after the British Crown Commissioner, Sir Charles Harman, passed a law regulating the election of the Archbishop, in 1907.

The disagreement between the two Cypriot prelates eventually involved the Eastern Orthodox Patriarchates of Constantinople, Jerusalem and Alexandria.

After he gave up as Archbishop he became president of the Greek Educational Institutions in Cyprus, a post he held until his death in 1916.