The young Nikolaos Mouzalon received an excellent education, showing signs of promiseCertainty: 0
1107
Certainty: 0 Nikolaos Mouzalon, didaskalos of the Gospels, appointed archbishop of Cyprus Certainty: 0
1110
Certainty: 1 Nikolaos Mouzalon resigned as archbishop of Cyprus Certainty: 1
1147
Certainty: 2 Nikolaos Mouzalon was promoted patriarch
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
1150
Nikephoros Basilakes wrote an encomium of Nikolaos MouzalonCertainty: 1