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==Life==
Little is known of the early life of Dionysius. He lived during a period of frequent turnover in the position of [[patriarch]] as the Turkish Sultan and his administration took frequent advantage of competing factions for financial payoffs from the competing factions among the Orthodox to have their man as patriarch.
He participated in the [[Synod]] of Jerusalem in 1672 that refuted the ''Confession of [[Cyril Lucaris]]'', declared it a forgery, and reaffirmed that the Holy Spirit proceeds God the Father and not from both the Father and Son in the document called the ''Confession of [[Dositheus II Notarius of Jerusalem|Dositheus]]''.