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==Background==
The rebellion led by Dionysios is part of the local uprisings in the early 17th century in [[Albania]] and Epirus which combined anti-taxation demands and anti-Ottoman sentiments. An anti-taxation uprising had occurred in the region just five years before 1611 in the region of [[Kurvelesh (region)|Kurvelesh]]. These 17th century uprisings were often instigated by pro-western figures and as such had a more limited scope than those of the 16th century which purely relied on the economic and social demands of a popular base.{{sfn|Giakoumis|2002|p=35}}
Venice also fostered various uprisings in the Balkans and especially in Epirus with the support of local nobility, scholars, clerics and Greek military figures under their command.<ref>{{cite book|first=Βάσω Δ.|last=Ψιμούλη|title=Σούλι και Σουλιώτες|publisher=Βιβλιοπωλείον της Εστίας|edition=4th|location=Athens| year=2006|series=Ιστορία και Πολιτική|quote='Ετσι υποκινούν μέσω των τοπικών ηγετών -λογίων, κληρικών καθώς και Ελλήνων στρατιωτικών που βρίσκονται στην υπηρεσία τους, πολλές εξεγέρσεις σε διάφορα σημεία της χερσονήσου καθώς και στην Ήπειρο. Η ανταρσία.... "Σκυλοσόφου" το 1600 και 1611 στην Ήπειρο, εντάσσονται στις κινήσεις αυτές.|page=54}}</ref> The figure who led the Epirus uprising of 1611 was a figure named [[Dionysios Skylosophos|Dionysios]] who was a former Greek Orthodox metropolitan bishop of Larissa. He had already incited a failed [[Thessaly rebellion (1600)|rebellion in Thessaly]] in 1600. In 1601, the [[Ecumenical Patriarchate of Constantinople]] deposed him for "plotting with madness the uprising against the rule of the lifelong sovereign Sultan [[Mehmet III]]". In the next years, Dionysios traveled to Spain to seek for western support for his plans. There Dionysios proposed a plan for the liberation of Epirus, Macedonia, Thessaly and all of "Greece".<ref>{{cite book |last1=Kasidiari-Hering |first1=Olga |title=Christian Subjects in Ottoman Empire |date=2014 |location=Hērakleio |isbn=978-960-524-437-8 |page=601 |quote=Άλλοτε (περίπτω- ση Διονυσίου «Σκυλοσόφου», 1611) προτείνεται η εξέγερση και συνεπώς η «απε- λευθέρωση» της Ηπείρου, της Μακεδονίας, της Θεσσαλίας και όλης της «Γραικίας».}}</ref> In 1603 just before he travelled to Spain, he abandoned Greek Orthodoxy, pledged his allegiance to Pope [[Clement VIII]] and received communion with the Roman Catholic Church. In response, Greek clerics of the era frequently attacked and called him an [[apostate]]. In this circumstances, Greek clerics in Epirus gave him the sobriquet "Dionysios the Demon" and later "Dog-philosopher" (''Skylosophos''). His most fierce opponent who violently attacked his memory after his execution was Maximos, a Greek hieromonk of the Peloponnese, who happened to witness the events of 1611 in Ioannina, wrote a “stigmatizing address” (''Λόγος Στηλιτευτικὸς'') and a number of letters to fellow Greek clerics in Epirus.<ref name="Doja751"/> He emerged openly as a sworn clerical opponent of the rebellious bishop Dionysios whom he clearly identified as an enemy of the Church and the Greek-speaking Orthodox Christians.
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