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[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]
The Church was previously known as the Assyrian Orthodox Church in America and Israel-Palestine, which can be seen in the name of the Syriac Orthodox Church of Paramus, New Jersey. [ 26 ] Chaldean refers to ethnic Assyrians who are (traditionally) Eastern Catholic , having split from the Assyrian Church in Upper Mesopotamia between the 17th and ...
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 ...
The church will celebrate its centennial anniversary on Oct. 7 and 8 since its 1923 consecration, but as one of the oldest Syriac Orthodox churches in the country, its history actually goes back ...
Indians who follow the Oriental Orthodox faith belong to the Malankara Orthodox Syrian Church and the Jacobite Syrian Christian Church. The two churches were united before 1912 and after 1958, but again separated in 1975. The Malankara Orthodox Syrian Church, also known as the Indian Orthodox Church, is an autocephalous church.
The Maronite Church (Arabic: الكنيسة المارونية; Syriac: ܥܕܬܐ ܣܘܪܝܝܬܐ ܡܪܘܢܝܬܐ) is an Eastern Catholic sui iuris particular church in full communion with the pope and the worldwide Catholic Church, with self-governance under the Code of Canons of the Eastern Churches. [9]
H.E. Mor Titus Yeldho (born 22 July 1970) is a Syriac Orthodox Archbishop, [1] currently the Archbishop of the Malankara Archdiocese of the Syriac Orthodox Church in North America. [2] He is the fourth archbishop of the Malankara Archdiocese in North America. [3] [4]
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 ...