Alexander III of Antioch

Alexander III Tahhan ألكسندروس الثالث طحان
Greek Orthodox Patriarch of Antioch and All the East
Church	Greek Orthodox Church of Antioch
Installed	1928
Term ended	1958
Predecessor	Gregory IV of Antioch
Successor	Theodosius VI of Antioch
Personal details
Born	1869 Damascus, Ottoman Syria
Died	17 June 1958(1958-06-17) (aged 88–89) Damascus, Syria

Patriarch Alexander III Tahhan (Arabic: البطريرك ألكسندروس الثالث طحان al-Baṭriyark ʾAliksandrūs aṯ-Ṯāliṯ Ṭaḥḥān; 1869–1958) was Greek Orthodox Patriarch of Antioch[1] and all the East from 1928 to 1958. He was instrumental in the revival of churches and monasteries within the patriarchate. He also moved for the revival of the Patriarchal Theological School at Balamand.

Alexander, after consultations with the hierarchs of the other autocephalous churches, on May 31, 1958, authorized Metropolitan Antony Bashir to establish the Western Rite in the Antiochian Archdiocese in the United States.

He died on 17 June 1958.

Literature

• Hage, Wolfgang (2007). Das orientalische Christentum. Stuttgart: Kohlhammer Verlag. ISBN 9783170176683.

References

1. "Antiochian Orthodox Christian Archdiocese of North America".

External links

• Primates of the Apostolic See of Antioch

Preceded by Gregory IV of Antioch

Eastern Orthodox Patriarch of Antioch 1931–1958

Succeeded by Theodosius VI of Antioch