Title: ``Relative Homological Algebra and Purity in Triangulated categories". Status: To appear in Journal of Algebra. Updated version of the 1998 preprints ``Relative Homological Algebra in Triangulated categories I, II" Author: Apostolos Beligiannis. Address: 7th Sintagmatos 21, 34100 Chalkis, Evia, Greece. and Department of Mathematics, University of the Aegean, 83200 Karlovasi, Samos, Greece.