George Amiroutzes pressed forward and turned to his cousin, the Grand vizier Mahmud Pasha Angelović, who tried to influence the Holy Synod to depose Joasaph I.
Irritated by the refusal of Joasaph I to allow the new marriage of Amiroutzes, Sultan Mehmed II ordered the Patriarch's humiliation by cutting his beard and punished also the Megas Ekklesiarches (i.e. Head Sacristan) Manuel, the future Patriarch Maximus III of Constantinople, by cutting his nose.
[5] These events led Joasaph I to a state of depression which culminated in his attempted suicide: the day of Easter 1463 (10 April) he deliberately threw himself in the cistern beneath the Pammakaristos Church.
[2] Joasaph I was rescued, deposed and exiled to Anchialos,[2] opening the way for George Amiroutzes to marry his new wife.
Furthermore, there is no consensus among scholars on the length and chronology of the second and third terms of Gennadius II of Constantinople which supposedly alternated the patriarchates of Joasaph I and Sophronius I.