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In central Iraq, a Syriac Orthodox diocese for Baghdad, the capital of the ʿAbbasid caliphate, is attested between the ninth and thirteenth centuries. [62] There were also Syriac Orthodox dioceses for Tagrit, Karma (seventh to thirteenth centuries), Bahrin, Piroz Shabur, Karsabak, ʿAqula, and the Bani Taghlib Arabs (seventh to tenth centuries).
The Syriac Orthodox Church of Antioch originally covered the whole region of the Middle East and India. In recent centuries, its parishioners started to emigrate to other countries over the world. Today, the Syriac Orthodox Church has several archdioceses and patriarchal vicariates (exarchates) in many countries covering six continents.
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Dioceses of the Syriac Orthodox Church in the Near East during the medieval period, including the ancient Diocese of Baghdad. The main primary sources for the Syriac Orthodox bishops of Baghdad are the Chronicle of the Syriac Orthodox patriarch Michael the Syrian (1166–1199), who was one of the most notable Syriac Orthodox writers of the medieval period, [3] and also the Chronicon ...
The West Syriac liturgical tradition was introduced after 1665, and the community associated with it is represented by the Jacobite Syrian Christian Church (a part of the Syriac Orthodox Church), the Malankara Orthodox Syrian Church (both of them belonging to the Oriental Orthodoxy), the Syro-Malankara Catholic Church (an Eastern Catholic ...
Historical divisions within Syriac Christianity in the Near East. Syriac Christians belong to several Christian denominations, both historical and modern.Various terms that are applied to those denominations are also used to designate Syriac Christian communities that belong to distinctive branches of the Christian denominational tree.
The Maphrian (Syriac: ܡܦܪܝܢܐ, romanized: maphryānā or maphryono), originally known as the Grand Metropolitan of the East and also known as the Catholicos, [1] is the second-highest rank in the ecclesiastical hierarchy of the Syriac Orthodox Church, right below that of patriarch.
English: Syriac Orthodox dioceses in the Middle East during the middle ages. Palestine . Syria . Lebanon and Cyprus . Cilicia . Cappadocia . Amid and Arzun . Commagene .