Nikolaos Mouzalon was promoted patriarch

Summary:
Nikolaos IV Mouzalon was chosen as patriarch at a time of great troubles in the church [because of the alleged Bogomilism of his predecesor]; there was a new dawn in the patriarchate. But very soon he was attacked as ineligible, as having given up priesthood 37 years before as he resigned the see of Cyprus. Other sources claim hat when he abdicated from Cyprus it was only the administration of the see he gave up, not the office of archbishop or the priesthood 
Dates:
1147 
Emperor Manuel I Komnenos (Manuel 1)
  • Appointed Nikolaos 14 (Mouzalon) to the patriarchal throne but when Nikolaos was widely attacked as ineligible he made a determination against him, which led to his resignation (:) Kinnamos 83.14-84.4
Nikolaos IV Mouzalon, archbishop of Cyprus, then patriarch of Constantinople (Nikolaos 14)
  • Appointed patriarch of Constantinople, he was then widely attacked as ineligible, having given up priesthood with the see of Cyprus. At first he resisted but when Manuel 1 pronounced against him he resigned, returning to private life (:) ... ἅτε ξὺν τῇ λαχούσῃ τοῦτον ἐκκλησίᾳ καὶ τὴν ἱερωσύνην ἤδη προσαποθέμενον Kinnamos 83.14-84.4
  • He was chosen as patriarch at a time of great troubles in the church [because of the alleged Bogomilism of his predecesor]; there was a new dawn in the patriarchate (:) Basilakios, Orationes et epistulae 80.20-81.19
  • He was eventually made patriarch of Constantinople; single manuscripts mention that he had been in retirement for 37 years, and that when he abdicated from Cyprus it was only the administration of the see which he gave up, not the office of archbishop (:) παραιτησάμενος, ὡς πολλοὶ μὲν ἔλεγον, τὴν ἀρχιερωσύνην, πολλοὶ δὲ μόνην τὴν διοίκησιν τῶν πραγμάτων Peri metatheseon 183, no. 57