Ignatius George III was the Patriarch of Antioch and head of the Syriac Orthodox Church from 1745 until his death in 1768.
[1] George studied under the patriarch Ignatius Isaac II and in 1722, he was ordained as an ecumenical metropolitan and was called Basil.
[2] After Ignatius Shukrallah II was elected as a new patriarch, he appointed him as Metropolitan of Aleppo and gave him the name Dionysus 00where he stayed there about 18 year.
[2] After three days of deliberations, the metropolitans who met there, chose him to be the new patriarch and he was consecrated in October 1745 as Ignatius George III.
[2] After he was consecrated, he travelled to the capitol, Istanbul, and received the royal decree and then appointed a permanent representative for the church in the capital.