TEOFANE III, patriarch of JERUSALEM. - He held the patriarchate from 1606 to 15 Dec. 1644; he was a bitter opponent of the Franciscans in the question of the Holy Places and did much to destroy the Union of the Ruthenians concluded in 1595-96. Yet in his correspondence with Urban VIII he was able to display peaceful ideas.
Bibl.: Chrys. Papadopulos, Storia della Chiesa di Gerusalemme (in Greek), Gerusalemme 1910, pp. 487-548; G. Hofmann, Theophanes III. und Urban VIII., in Orient. Christ., 1933; R. Janin, Theophane III de Jérus., in DTHC XV, 1, 512-13. Giorgio Hofmann