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The designation "Greek" refers to the use of Koine Greek in liturgy, [56] not to ethnicity; most Antiochian Greek Christians identify themselves as Arabs. [ 57 ] [ 58 ] [ 59 ] During the First Crusade era, most of them were referred to as Syriacs ethnically and Greeks only in regard to religious affinity: only the inhabitants of Antioch city ...
The Church of Antioch (Arabic: كنيسة أنطاكية, romanized: kánīsa ʾanṭākiya, pronounced [ka.niː.sa ʔan.tˤaː.ki.ja]; Turkish: Antakya Kilisesi) was the first of the five major churches of what later became the pentarchy in Christianity, with its primary seat in the ancient Greek city of Antioch (present-day Antakya, Turkey).
Its adherents, known as Antiochian Christians, are a Middle-Eastern semi-ethnoreligious Eastern Christian group residing in the Levant region including the Hatay Province of Turkey. [8] [7] Many of their descendants now live in the global Eastern Christian diaspora. The number of Antiochian Greek Christians is estimated to be approximately 4.3 ...
Members of the Greek Orthodox Church of Antioch (4 C, 22 P) Pages in category "Antiochian Greek Christians" The following 8 pages are in this category, out of 8 total.
Upon the arrest of both prisoners, Christians from all over Asia Minor come to visit them and bring them gifts; (cf. Peregrinus 12–13). Both prisoners send letters to several Greek cities shortly before their deaths as "testaments, counsels, and laws", appointing "couriers" and "ambassadors" for the purpose. [57]
The Patriarch of Antioch is a traditional title held by the bishop of Antioch (modern-day Antakya, Turkey).As the traditional "overseer" (ἐπίσκοπος, episkopos, from which the word bishop is derived) of the first gentile Christian community, the position has been of prime importance in Pauline Christianity from its earliest period.
However, after the Council of Chalcedon (451), the Antiochian school became the sole theological school within Eastern and Western Christianity, where the Oriental Orthodox adopted the Alexandrian School of Theology. [citation needed] Apparently only two later authors are known: Basil of Seleucia and Gennadius of Constantinople. [citation needed]
Antioch was a chief center of early Christianity during Roman times, [26] and converts there were the first people to be called Christians. [27] The city had a large population of Jewish origin in a quarter called the Kerateion , and so attracted the earliest missionaries. [ 28 ]