Maximos III Mazloum

Maximos III Mazloum
Patriarch of Antioch
Church	Melkite Greek Catholic Church
See	Antioch
Installed	March 24, 1833
Term ended	August, 1855
Predecessor	Ignatius V Qattan
Successor	Clement Bahouth
Orders
Ordination	1806 (Priest)
Consecration	August 5, 1810 (Bishop) by Agapius II Matar
Personal details
Born	Michael Mazloum November 1779 Aleppo, Syria
Died	August , 1855 (aged 75–76)

Maximos III Michael Mazloum, (born in November 1779 in Aleppo, present Syria – died in August 1855) was patriarch of the Melkite Greek Catholic Church from 1833 until 1855. As patriarch he reformed church administration and bolstered clerical education. He was also the first Melkite patriarch granted civil authority by the Ottoman Empire when the Melkites were recognized as a unique millet.