High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! Yohannan III, the nephew of the patriarch Theodosius (853–8), was Patriarch of the Church of the East from 893 to 899. He was remembered as a profound scholar, but also as a glutton, a miser and a simoniac. Brief accounts of Yohannan's patriarchate are given in the Ecclesiastical Chronicle of the Jacobite writer Bar Hebraeus (floruit 1280) and in the ecclesiastical histories of the Nestorian writers Mari (twelfth-century), ?Amr (fourteenth-century) and Sliba (fourteenth-century). The following account of Yohannan's patriarchate, partly dependent on Mari's version, is given by Bar Hebraeus: The catholicus Yohannan Bar Narsai was succeeded by Yohannan, the nephew of the catholicus Theodosius by his brother. This man was a bishop, and assembled with the other bishops for the election of the catholicus at Pentecost; and when they asked him to preach a sermon to the people on the Lord's day, he began to deliver the homily of Saint Gregory Theologus on the Holy Spirit, which begins 'Let us say little about this feast'. He recited it word for word, neither adding to it nor subtracting from it. This feat won him the favour of all the people.

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