Patriarch Athanasius II Dabbas (died 1619), sometime known also as Athanasius III,He is known as ''Athanasius II'' in the patriarchal lists of Korolevski and Skaff, as ''Athanasius III'' in the list of Costantius. was

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from 1611 to 1619.

Life

Athanasius II Dabbas succeeded to be elected Patriarch because he promised to the Damascenes to pay annually the deficit of the tax required of the Christians ('' Kharaj tax'') by the

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. Thus he was consecrated Patriarch in September 1611. In 1612 he appointed and consecrated

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Meletios Karmah (who twenty years later became patriarch), with whom he later argued for financial reasons or for Meletios’ contacts with the

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. In 1614 Athanasius went to

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to ask

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Timothy II to depose Meletios, who also came to Constantinople. The two prelates, Athanasius and Meletios, were then able to reach an agreement. Athanasius had a positive opinion of the Latin missionaries in Syria, and in 1617 he probably held a pro-Catholic

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. Athanasius was not able to uphold the promise of paying the tax required of the Christians, and thus in 1619 he was imprisoned by the Ottoman governor of

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and was put in jail. After he paid a large ransom he was allowed to leave for

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where he died of illness in 1619.

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