He became very involved in the state of the Orthodox Church in the Balkans, Georgia, and southern Russia, particularly after Patriarch Cyril Lucaris of Constantinople set forth in his
Confession of Faith (1629) his agreement in the doctrines of
predestination and justification by faith alone. In 1672, Patriarch Dositheus convened the
Synod of Jerusalem which rejected all the Calvinist doctrines and reformulated Orthodox teachings in a manner that distinguished them from Roman Catholicism as well as Protestantism. In correspondence with
Peter I of Russia, he objected to
Peter's reforms that subjected the church to the state, particularly with his abolition of the
Patriarchate of Moscow. Dositheus failed in his attempt to get Peter to intercede for the Eastern Orthodox Church in the
peace treaty with the
Ottoman Empire in 1700. Dositheus was an "instancabile editore di cose non sue" ("indefatiguable editor of other people's works"), "theologorum Graecorum opera non pauca prelo mandavit ... fuit enim potius compilator et alienorum editor quam novorum auctor" ("he printed not few works of Greek theologicians ... he was a compiler and editor of other people's works, rather than author of original works"). The main works published during his life were a three-volumes collection of anti-Latin works: Τόμος καταλλαγῆς [The tome of the Reconciliation], Τόμος ἀγάπης [The tome of Love], Τόμος χαρᾶς [The tome of Joy], all printed in Jaşi, 1692–1705.
Death Dositheus died in Constantinople on 8 February 1707. == Notes ==