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They followed the Syriac Orthodox faith, maintained their distinct identity and preserved the traditions of the Syriac Orthodox Church. With the approval and spiritual guidance of the late Archbishop Mor Athanasius Yeshue Samuel, the first Malankara Syriac Orthodox Parish in North America was formed in 1975 as Mar Gregorios Syriac Orthodox ...
[23] [24] The Syriac Orthodox Church comprises 26 archdioceses and 13 patriarchal vicariates. [25] Jacobite Syrian Christian Church is an autonomous body in India with the Catholicos of India as the head of the church. Roughly one million or two-thirds of the total adherents of the Syriac Orthodox Church are part of this sub-church. [26]
Syriac Orthodox Christians in the Middle East, known simply as Assyrians or Syriacs (Suryoye), are an ethnic [94] subgroup who follow the West Syrian Rite Syriac Orthodox Church in the Middle East and the diaspora, numbering between 150,000 and 200,000 people in their indigenous area of habitation in Syria, Iraq, and Turkey according to ...
Unless otherwise stated, all information is from the list provided in The Syriac World, as noted in the bibliography below. [9] According to church tradition, numeration includes incumbents deemed legitimate by the Syriac Orthodox Church prior to 559. [10] Ahudemmeh (559–575) vacant (575–578) Qamishoʿ (578–609) vacant (609–614) Samuel ...
Current Patriarch of Antioch, Ignatius Aphrem II The Syriac Orthodox patriarch of Antioch and All the East is the head of the Syriac Orthodox Church.According to tradition, the patriarchate of Antioch was established by Saint Peter in the 1st century AD, but split into two separate lines of patriarchs after the deposition of Patriarch Severus of Antioch in 518 over the issue of the Council of ...
In the 20th century a new maphrianate nominally under the Syriac Orthodox Church was established in India in 1912, creating a new autocephalous church, the Malankara Orthodox Church. This was not recognized by the then-reigning Patriarch of Antioch until 1958, at the consecration of Baselios Augen I . [ 2 ]
Mor Ignatius Aphrem I Barsoum (Classical Syriac: ܡܪܢ ܡܪܝ ܐܝܓܢܐܛܝܘܣ ܐܦܪܝܡ ܒܪܨܘܡ, [1] Arabic: إغناطيوس أفرام الأول برصوم, June 15, 1887 – June 23, 1957) was the 120th Syriac Orthodox Patriarch of Antioch and head of the Syriac Orthodox Church from 1933 until his death in 1957.
This category is for saints venerated by the Syriac Orthodox Church Pages in category "Syriac Orthodox Church saints" The following 38 pages are in this category, out of 38 total.