During Luke's patriarchate several other major theological
controversies occurred. In 1156–1157 the question was raised,
whether Christ had offered himself as a sacrifice for the sins
of the world to the Father and to the Holy Spirit only, or also
to the Logos (i.e., to himself). In the end a synod held at
Constantinople in 1157 adopted a compromise formula, that the
Word made flesh offered a double sacrifice to the Holy Trinity,
despite the dissidence of Patriarch of Antioch-elect Soterichus
Panteugenus. During his term first appeared the theological
issue of the relation between the Son and the Father in the Holy
Trinity. The issue was created due to the explanation that one
Demetrius of Lampi (in Phrygia) gave to the phrase of the Gospel
of John «ὁ Πατήρ μου μείζων μου ἐστίν», which means my Father is
bigger than me (John, XIV.29). Chrysoberges, at the behest of
the Emperor Manuel I, convened several meetings of the synod in
1166 to solve the problem, which condemned as heretical the
explanations of Demetr