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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]
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
The Maphrian, originally known as the Grand Metropolitan of the East or the Catholicos, was the head of the Maphrianate of the East and was the second highest-ranking prelate within the Syriac Orthodox Church, after the Patriarch of Antioch [1] However, the head of the church in earthly matters in India and abroad of Malankara Syriac Orthodox Church is Malankara Metropolitan who normally is ...
Syrian Church may refer to: - any Christian denomination belonging to the Christianity in Syria, including: Syrian Oriental Orthodox Church - Orthodox denominations in Syria; Syrian Catholic Church (disambiguation) - Catholic denominations in Syria; Syrian Protestant Churches - Protestant denominations in Syria
The Syriac Orthodox Patriarch of Antioch and All the East (Syriac: ܦܛܪܝܪܟܐ ܕܐܢܛܝܘܟܝܐ ܘܕܟܠܗ̇ ܡܕܢܚܐ Paṭriarḵo ḏ-Anṭiuḵia waḏ-kuloh madnho) is the Bishop of Antioch, and head of the Syriac Orthodox Church (Syriac: ܥܺܕܬܳܐ ܣܽܘ̣ܪܝܳܝܬܳܐ ܬܪܺܝܨܰܬ ܫܽܘ̣ܒ̣ܚܳܐ).
The Syriac Orthodox Church had been hoping to begin broadcasting private Syriac-rite religious programming as early as 2009. [4] The channel was created in response to increasing persecution against Syriac Orthodox Christians, as well as the threat of increasing assimilation from living outside the Assyrian homeland. [4]