Serbian Patriarch Joanikije III

Joannicius III
Archbishop of Constantinople and Ecumenical Patriarch
Church	Church of Constantinople
Installed	26 March 1761
Term ended	21 May 1763
Predecessor	Seraphim II
Successor	Samuel
Personal details
Born	c. 1700
Died	1793 Monastery of Halki
Previous post	Archbishop of Peć and Serbian Patriarch 1739–1746 Metropolitan of Chalcedon 1747-1761

Joannicius III (Greek: Ιωαννίκιος Γ΄, Serbian: Јоаникије III) was Archbishop of Peć and Serbian Patriarch from 1739 to 1746 and Archbishop of Constantinople and Ecumenical Patriarch from 1761 to 1763. The ordinal number of his title is III both for his office as Patriarch of Peć and of Constantinople.

Ioannis Karatzas was born in circa 1700 and belonged to the influential Phanariote family Caradja (Karatzas), of Byzantine Greek origin. He became a deacon serving Patriarch Paisius II and later he was appointed protosyncellus.

With the 1739 Treaty of Belgrade which ended the Austro–Turkish War (1737–39), the Kingdom of Serbia ceased to exist. The Ottoman sultan deposed Serbian Patriarch Arsenije IV who sided with the Habsburg Monarchy during the war, and in his place appointed the Greek Joannicius, who took the title of Archbishop of Peć and Serbian Patriarch. Among the Serbs he was known as Joanikije (Јоаникије), and it was recorded at the time that he was appointed by 'the mighty [rule of the] Turk, and not by election at the [Serbian] sabor (assembly)'. The previous patriarch Arsenije IV moved to the Habsburg Monarchy along with many Serbs, in what is known as the Second Great Serb Migration. Arsenije IV became Metropolitan of Karlovci, maintaining however deep connections with the Serbs who remained in the Ottoman Empire under the jurisdiction of Joannicius. Joannicius remained Serbian Patriarch until 1746, when, burdened with debts due to his high-living, he was forced to sell the title to pay his creditors.

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