Hadim Mesih Pasha ( ota, خادم مسيح پاشا; died 1589) was an Ottoman

statesman A statesman or stateswoman typically is a politician who has had a long and respected political career at the national or international level. Statesman or Statesmen may also refer to: Newspapers United States * ''The Statesman'' (Oregon), a n ...

who served as

Grand Vizier Grand vizier ( fa, وزيرِ اعظم, vazîr-i aʾzam; ota, صدر اعظم, sadr-ı aʾzam; tr, sadrazam) was the title of the effective head of government of many sovereign states in the Islamic world. The office of Grand Vizier was first ...

under

Murad III Murad III ( ota, مراد ثالث, Murād-i sālis; tr, III. Murad; 4 July 1546 – 16 January 1595) was Sultan of the Ottoman Empire from 1574 until his death in 1595. His rule saw battles with the Habsburgs and exhausting wars with the Saf ...

from 1 December 1585 until 15 April 1586. Masih Pasha was born in Bosnia to a Christian family. As a

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he served as chief of the inner pantry and treasury of the imperial palace. In 1574 he was sent to Cairo as governor-general of

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. On his return to the capital in 1581 he became the third vizier. He was promoted to second vizier in July 1584 and in November 1585 he substituted for

Özdemiroğlu Osman Pasha Özdemiroğlu Osman Pasha ( ota, اوزدمیر اوغلی عثمان‌ پاشا, lit=Osman Pasha, the son of Özdemir; 1526 – 29 October 1585) was an Ottoman statesman and military commander who also held the office of grand vizier for one ...

when Osman Pasha left the capital on a campaign against the

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. On Osman Pasha's death Masih Pasha was appointed as

on 1 December 1585, a post he only held until 15 April 1586. He died in 1589 and was buried in a tomb next to the mosque that he had commissioned in Istanbul.

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* 16th-century Grand Viziers of the Ottoman Empire 16th-century Ottoman governors of Egypt Devshirme Ottoman governors of Egypt Eunuchs from the Ottoman Empire 1589 deaths {{Ottoman-bio-stub

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