Saint Philotheos Kokkinos (1300 - 1379) "In 1353 he was made Patriarch of Constantinople..a zealous champion of undiluted Orthodoxy, writing treatises refuting the scholastic philosophy that was then infecting the Western church...he always sought a true, rather than political, reconciliation with the West, and even worked to convene an Ecumenical Council to resolve the differences between the churches; this was rejected by Pope Urban V."
