# Shemon III

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{{Infobox Patriarch
|honorific_prefix = Mar
|name = Shemʿon III
|birth_name = 
|church = [Church of the East](/source/Church_of_the_East)
|see = [Seleucia-Ctesiphon](/source/Patriarchal_Province_of_Seleucia-Ctesiphon)
|title = [Patriarch of the Church of the East](/source/List_of_Patriarchs_of_the_Church_of_the_East)
|residence =
|enthroned = {{circa}}1425
|ended = {{circa}}1450
|predecessor = [Eliya IV](/source/Eliya_IV)
|successor = [Shemon IV](/source/Shemon_IV)
|birth_date = 14th century
|death_date = 15th century
|buried =
}}
'''[Mar](/source/Mar_(title)) Shemʿon III''' was the [patriarch of the Church of the East](/source/patriarch_of_the_Church_of_the_East) in the early 15th century. There is uncertainty over his existence, his dates and his place in the order of patriarchs.

Traditionally, Shemʿon III is listed between patriarchs [Shemʿon II](/source/Shem%CA%BFon_II), whose reign began in 1381/2, and [Eliya IV](/source/Eliya_IV), who is said to have died in 1437.{{sfn|Burleson|Van Rompay|2011}} A manuscript made in the reign of the Shemʿon who succeeded Eliya IV casts doubt on this reconstruction, however. In a copy of the ''[Book of the Bee](/source/Book_of_the_Bee)'', a list of patriarchs has been extended from the time of [Timothy II](/source/Timothy_II_(Nestorian_patriarch)) to "Shemʿon of our days". The intervening patriarchs are [Denha II](/source/Denha_II), a certain Shemʿon and Eliya IV. This can only be Shemʿon II.{{sfn|Wilmshurst|2011|p=287}}

Manuscript [colophons](/source/Colophon_(publishing)) from 1429/30 and 1437 attest to a patriarch named Shemʿon, and David Wilmshurst suggests that this person, along with the "Shemʿon of our days" of the ''Bee'' manuscript, was Shemʿon III, who succeeded Eliya IV around 1425.{{sfn|Wilmshurst|2011|p=292}}{{sfn|Wilmshurst|2000|p=348}} He dates his patriarchate from c. 1425 to c. 1450.{{sfn|Wilmshurst|2019|p=800}} [Jean Maurice Fiey](/source/Jean_Maurice_Fiey) went so far as to deny the existence of Shemʿon III entirely.{{sfn|Wilmshurst|2000|p=3}} This would give [Shemʿon IV](/source/Shem%CA%BFon_IV) (successor of Eliya IV or Shemʿon III, depending on the list) a reign of sixty years or more.{{sfn|Wilmshurst|2011|p=292}}

==Notes==
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==Bibliography==
{{refbegin}}
*{{cite encyclopedia |first1=Samuel |last1=Burleson |first2=Lucas |last2=Van Rompay |title=List of Patriarchs: I. The Church of the East and its Uniate Continuations |encyclopedia=Gorgias Encyclopedic Dictionary of the Syriac Heritage |editor1=[Sebastian P. Brock](/source/Sebastian_P._Brock) |editor2=Aaron M. Butts |editor3=[George A. Kiraz](/source/George_A._Kiraz) |editor4=Lucas Van Rompay |url=https://gedsh.bethmardutho.org/Church-East-Uniate-Continuation |publisher=Gorgias Press |year=2011}}
*{{cite book |first=David J. |last=Wilmshurst |title=The Ecclesiastical Organisation of the Church of the East, 1318–1913 |publisher=Peeters |year=2000}}
*{{cite book |first=David J. |last=Wilmshurst |title=The Martyred Church: A History of the Church of the East |publisher=East and West Publishing |year=2011}}
*{{cite book |first=David J. |last=Wilmshurst |title=The Syriac World |editor=Daniel King |chapter=The Patriarchs of the Church of the East |pages=799–805 |year=2019 |publisher=Routledge}}
{{refend}}

{{S-start}}
{{s-rel|[Church of the East titles](/source/Church_of_the_East)}}
{{Succession box
  |before=[Eliya IV](/source/Eliya_IV)<br />({{circa}}1405&ndash;{{circa}}1425)
  |title=[Catholicos-Patriarch of the East](/source/List_of_Patriarchs_of_the_Church_of_the_East)
  |years=({{circa}}1425&ndash;{{circa}}1450)
  |after=[Shemon IV](/source/Shemon_IV)<br />({{circa}}1450&ndash;1497)
}}
{{s-end}}

{{Patriarchs of the Church of the East}}

Category:14th-century births
Category:15th-century deaths
Category:Patriarchs of the Church of the East
Category:15th-century bishops of the Church of the East

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