Ecumenical Patriarch Basil III (; 1846 – 29 September 1929), born Vasileios Georgiadis (Βασίλειος Γεωργιάδης), was Ecumenical Patriarch of Constantinople from July 1925, and serving until his death in September 1929, serving as the primus inter pares (first among equals) and spiritual leader of Easter Orthodox Christianity worldwide.
He studied theology and philology at the University of Athens, and obtained a PhD at the Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München.
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External links His All Holiness, Ecumenical Patriarch Basil III of Constantinople