Athanasius II Dabbas [SEP] date of death
Athanasius II Dabbas
Patriarch Athanasius II Dabbas (died 1619), sometime known also as Athanasius III, was Eastern Orthodox Patriarch of Antioch from 1611 to 1619.
Life.
Athanasius II Dabbas succeeded to be elected Patriarch because he promised to the Damascenes to pay annually the deficit of the tax required of the Christians ("Kharaj tax") by the Ottomans. Thus he was consecrated Patriarch in September 1611.
In 1612 he appointed and consecrated metropolitan bishop of Aleppo Meletios Karmah (who twenty years later became patriarch
Chio was anti-patriarch from 1674 to 1684, Athanasius Dabbas from 1685 to 1694.
Jawhar did not submit to patriarch Maximos II Hakim and excommunicate him and all his partisans: for this reason Jawhar was in turn excommunicated on 1 August 1761. Nor Jawhar accepted as patriarch Theodosius V Dahan who was elected shortly later the death of Maximos Hakim: he answered consecrating two bishops by his own initiative. Jawhar appealed to the Pope and to support his position he traveled to Rome where he arrived in March 1762. The election