John III of Antioch

John III
Syriac Orthodox Patriarch of Antioch and All the East
Church	Syriac Orthodox Church
See	Antioch
Installed	846
Term ended	873
Predecessor	Dionysius I Telmaharoyo
Successor	Ignatius II
Personal details
Died	3 January 873

John III (Syriac: Mor Yuhanon) was the Patriarch of Antioch, and head of the Syriac Orthodox Church from 846 until his death in 873.

Biography

John studied and became a monk at the Monastery of Mar Zacchaeus near Raqqa, where he was also ordained as a priest. In February 846, John was elected and consecrated as patriarch of Antioch at the Monastery of Shila near Serugh after which he issued twenty-five canons.

As a result of the strained relations between the maphrian and the patriarch in the past, in 869 John convened a synod at Kfar Tutho, in which he issued eight canons that resolved the differences between the two and regulated the relationship that would last until the maphrianate was dissolved in 1860.

During his reign as patriarch, John ordained eighty-six metropolitans and bishops before dying on the third of January 873.

References

• *The Scattered Pearls: A History of Syriac Literature and Sciences - Ignatius Aphrem I Barsoum.
• "Malankara Jacobite Syrian Christian Network".