Yohannan III
patriarch of the Church of the East (893-899)
55th Catholicos of the East (Seleucia-Ctesiphon) · c. 893–c. 899
Offices
- Catholicos of the East (Seleucia-Ctesiphon) № 55 · c. 893 – c. 899
Yohannan III, the nephew of the patriarch Theodosius (853–858), was Patriarch of the Church of the East from 893 to 899. He was remembered as a profound scholar, but also as a glutton, a miser and a simoniac.
Related people
- Yohannan II succeeded · inferred
- Yohannan IV preceded · inferred
Places
- Beth Garmai birth
- Baghdad death
How we know
Recorded as a historical figure.
- Maris, Amri et Slibae De Patriarchis Nestorianorum Commentaria (the Book of the Tower) 1 claim — Maris, De Patriarchis Nestorianorum Commentaria (ed. Gismondi)