 In 2004 it became known that he suffered from Alzheimer's disease and he fell into a coma the following year.He remained Head of the Church of Cyprus due to lack of provision in canon law for cases of incapacity.In early 2006 the Cypriot bishops asked the Patriarch of Constantinople to convoke a Panorthodox Synod to decide what was to be done since his condition was irreversible and he was still in a coma.