Cyril VI Tanas

Cyril VI Tanas
Cyril VI Tanas
Patriarch of Antioch
Church	Melkite Greek Catholic Church
See	Patriarch of Antioch
Installed	September 24, 1724
Term ended	January 10, 1760
Predecessor	Athanasius III Dabbas
Successor	Maximos II Hakim
Orders
Consecration	October 1, 1724 (Bishop); by Neophytos Nasri
Personal details
Born	Seraphim Tanas; 1680; Damascus
Died	January 10, 1760 (aged 79–80)

Patriarch Cyril VI Tanas, also known as Cyril VI of Antioch (born in 1680, Damascus – died on January 10, 1760), became the first Patriarch of Antioch and All the East, and Alexandria and Jerusalem of the Melkite Greek Catholic Church following the schism of the Greek Orthodox Patriarchate of Antioch in 1724.^[2] Cyril re-established full communion with the Catholic Church.

^ dink (2004), p. 33. Athanasius III was the last Orthodox patriarch of Antioch prior to the schism.
^ dink, Iganatios (2004). Melkites: Greek Orthodox and Greek Catholics of the Patriarchates of Antioch, Alexandria and Jerusalem. Boston: Sophia Press. pp. 33–34.