Basil III of Constantinople
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Basil III ( el, Βασίλειος Γʹ; 1846, Skutari,
Constantinople la, Constantinopolis ota, قسطنطينيه , alternate_name = Byzantion (earlier Greek name), Nova Roma ("New Rome"), Miklagard/Miklagarth (Old Norse), Tsargrad ( Slavic), Qustantiniya (Arabic), Basileuousa ("Queen of Cities"), Megalopolis (" ...
– September 29, 1929,
Fatih Fatih () is a district of and a municipality (''belediye'') in Istanbul, Turkey, and home to almost all of the provincial authorities (including the governor's office, police headquarters, metropolitan municipality and tax office) but not the co ...
,
Istanbul Istanbul ( , ; tr, İstanbul ), formerly known as Constantinople ( grc-gre, Κωνσταντινούπολις; la, Constantinopolis), is the List of largest cities and towns in Turkey, largest city in Turkey, serving as the country's economic, ...
), born Vasileios Georgiadis (Βασίλειος Γεωργιάδης), was
Ecumenical Patriarch of Constantinople The ecumenical patriarch ( el, Οἰκουμενικός Πατριάρχης, translit=Oikoumenikós Patriárchēs) is the archbishop of Constantinople (Istanbul), New Rome and '' primus inter pares'' (first among equals) among the heads of th ...
from July 13, 1925 until his death in 1929. He studied theology and philology at the University of Athens, and obtained a PhD at the University of Munich.


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His All Holiness, Ecumenical Patriarch Basil III of Constantinople
{{DEFAULTSORT:Basil 03 Of Constantinople, Patriarch 1929 deaths Turkish people of Greek descent 1846 births People from Üsküdar Bishops of Nicaea 20th-century Ecumenical Patriarchs of Constantinople Clergy from Istanbul Constantinopolitan Greeks