Meletius III of Constantinople

{{Short description|Ecumenical Patriarch of Constantinople in 1845}}

{{Expand Greek|topic=bio|Μελέτιος Γ΄|date=June 2012}}

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| name = Meletius III of Constantinople

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| church = Church of Constantinople

| archbishop_of = Ecumenical Patriarch of Constantinople

| term = 18 April – 28 November 1845

| predecessor = Germanus IV of Constantinople

| successor = Anthimus VI of Constantinople

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| birth_date = 1772

| birth_place = Kea

| death_date = 28 November 1845

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| religion = Eastern Orthodoxy

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Meletius III of Constantinople ({{langx|el|Μελέτιος}}; 1772 - 28 November 1845) was the Ecumenical Patriarch of Constantinople from 18 April 1845 until his death several months later on 28 November.{{Cite web |language=el |title=Μελέτιος Γʹ |url=https://ec-patr.org/oikoymeniko-patriarxeio/istoria/diatelesantes-patriarxes/ |access-date=21 February 2024 |website=ec-patr.org |series=Κατάλογος Οικουμενικών Πατριαρχών List of Ecumenical Patriarchs |date=25 July 2019 |publisher=Office of the Ecumenical Patriarch of Constantinople}}{{Cite book |last=Kiminas |first=Demetrius |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=QLWqXrW2X-8C |title=The Ecumenical Patriarchate - A History of Its Metropolitanates with Annotated Hierarch Catalogs |publisher=Wildside Press |date=2009 |isbn=9781434458766 |pages=30–44 |access-date=21 February 2024}} He was born at the island of Kea in 1772.