In this regard Cyril V was helped by the thaumaturgic and demagogic monk Auxentius[6] who preached strongly against the Catholics and instigated riots which culminated with a violent assault on the Patriarchate and the seizure of Paisius II himself.

[7] The riots were crushed, but the Ottoman authorities requested the deposition of Paisius II and,[6] in exchange for a considerable amount of money (45,000 piastres[8]: 166 ), appointed Cyril V, who was reinstalled on 7 September 1752.

With regards to the instruction of the monks, Cyril V established in 1749 the Athonite Academy on Mount Athos, and in 1753 he called the eminent theologian and scholar Eugenios Voulgaris to guide it.

In 1763, he returned to Constantinople to attempt a restoration to the patriarchal throne, but he was promptly and forcibly taken back to Agia Anna, where he died on 27 July 1775.

Its main representatives were Eugenios Voulgaris, the lay Eustratios Argenti and the thaumaturgic and demagogic monk Auxentios, who was able to stir up anti-Catholic mobs.

The Ottomans ruled the Christians through the millet system and subjected the Catholics to the civil authority of the Patriarch of Constantinople, causing numerous conversions to Orthodoxy.

Cyril V's actions to require the re-baptism of converts was due both by his fierce anti-Catholic position and by his sincere desire to provide what he considered to be a valid baptism.

The Holy Synod met on 28 April 1755 and formally voted against Cyril V's position, considering it an innovation not envisaged by the ancient canons and contrary to the liturgical praxis.