Tags: Christian Bishop.
Cyril V Karakallos (Greek: Κύριλλος Ε΄ Καράκαλλος) was Ecumenical Patriarch of Constantinople for two periods from 1748 to 1751 and from 1752 to 1757.A controversial figure often blamed for his ideas about the baptism in 1755 he issued the Oros a canonical document which superseding the previous use of accepting Christian converts by Chrismation stated that all non-Orthodox (including Catholic) baptisms were not valid and all converts needed to be re-baptized.
