CYRIL III BEN LAKLAK. - Patriarch of Alexandria, who lived in the 13th century, a priest by the name of David who simoniacally obtained the Coptic patriarchate of Alexandria under the name C., on 17 June 1235. He remained famous for his exactions and his brazen simony, which provoked open struggles on the part of his clergy, and he was therefore several times arrested and fined by the Muslim judicial authorities. In 1237 he ordained a metropolitan for Constantinople, thus entering into conflict with the patriarch of Antioch, Ignatius, who excommunicated the metropolitan. The latter, however, with the help of the Franks, who occupied the Holy Land, managed to keep his post and was the first of the Coptic metropolitans of Jerusalem. He died in 1243, obscurely, despised by all.

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BIBL.: E. Renaudot, Historia Patriarcharum Alexandrinorum Iacobitarum, Paris 1713, p. 576; W. Riedel, Kanonische Rechtsquellen des Patr. von Alexandrien, 1900, p. 301; G. Graf, s. v. in LThK, III, col. III.

Saverio Pericoli Ridolfini

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Cyril III Ben Laklak

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