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Basil Lazarus III was the Syriac Orthodox Maphrian of the East from 1709 until his death in 1713.

Biography

Iyawannis Lazarus was ordained bishop of Mansuriyya by Patriarch Ignatius Abdulmasih I in 1684, in which year he later also attended the consecration of the Holy Chrism at the Church of the Forty Martyrs at Mardin. In 1709, Lazarus was ordained as Maphrian of the East by Patriarch Ignatius Isaac II, upon which he assumed the name Basil. Lazarus served as Maphrian of the East until his death in mid-1713.

References

1. ^ Barsoum (2009), p. 17.

Bibliography

• Barsoum, Aphrem (2009). History of the Syriac Dioceses. Vol. 1. Translated by Matti Moosa. Gorgias Press. Retrieved 26 June 2021.

• Maphrians
• 1713 deaths
• 17th-century Oriental Orthodox bishops
• 18th-century Oriental Orthodox archbishops
• Assyrians from the Ottoman Empire
• 18th-century clergy from the Ottoman Empire
• Oriental Orthodox bishops in the Ottoman Empire
• 18th-century people from the Ottoman Empire