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
Died	17 June 1958(1958-06-17) (aged 88–89)

Patriarch Alexander III Tahhan (Arabic: البطريرك ألكسندروس الثالث طحان al-Baṭriyark ʾAliksandrūs aṯ-Ṯāliṯ Ṭaḥḥān; 1869–1958) was Greek Orthodox Patriarch of Antioch and all the East from 1928 to 1958. Patr. Alexander 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.

Patr. 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.

Patr. Alexander died on 17 June 1958.

Literature

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

External links

• Primates of the Apostolic See of Antioch