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Christianity in Syria has among the oldest Christian communities on Earth, dating back to the first century AD, and has been described as a "cradle of Christianity". [1] With its roots in the traditions of St. Paul the Apostle and St. Peter the Apostle, Syria quickly became a major center of early Christianity and produced many significant theologians and church leaders.
Syriac Christianity (Syriac: ܡܫܝܚܝܘܬܐ ܣܘܪܝܝܬܐ, Mšiḥoyuṯo Suryoyto or Mšiḥāyūṯā Suryāytā) is a branch of Eastern Christianity of which formative theological writings and traditional liturgies are expressed in the Classical Syriac language, a variation of the old Aramaic language. [ 1 ][ 2 ][ 3 ] In a wider sense ...
In Jacobite Syrian Christian Church, because of the lack of deacons, altar assistants who do not have a rank of deaconhood may assist the priest. Historically, in the Malankara Church, the local chief was called as Archdeacon, who was the ecclesiastical authority of the Saint Thomas Christians in the Malabar region of India. [103]
The Dura-Europos church (or Dura-Europos house church) is the earliest identified Christian house church. [1] It was located in Dura-Europos, Syria, and one of the earliest known Christian churches. [2] It is believed to have been an ordinary house that was converted to a place of worship between 233 and 256 AD, and appears to have been built ...
By the next year, 84 of the 116 Saint Thomas Christian churches had returned, forming the Syrian Catholic Church (modern day Syro-Malabar Catholic Church). The rest, which became known as the Malankara Church, soon entered into communion with the Syriac Orthodox Church. The Malankara Church also produced the Syro-Malankara Catholic Church.
The Maronite Church(Arabic: لكنيسة المارونية; Syriac: ܥܕܬܐ ܣܘܪܝܝܬܐ ܡܪܘܢܝܬܐ) is an Eastern Catholicsui iurisparticular churchin full communionwith the popeand the worldwide Catholic Church, with self-governance under the Code of Canons of the Eastern Churches.[9] The head of the Maronite Church is ...
t. e. The Saint Thomas Christians, also called Syrian Christians of India, Marthoma Suriyani Nasrani, Malankara Nasrani, or Nasrani Mappila, are an ethno-religious community of Indian Christians in the state of Kerala (Malabar region), [8] who, for the most part, employ the Eastern and Western liturgical rites of Syriac Christianity. [9]
The Assyrian Church of the East[ a ] (ACOE), sometimes called the Church of the East[ 5 ][ 6 ] and officially known as the Holy Apostolic Catholic Assyrian Church of the East (HACACE), [ 5 ][ 7 ][ b ] is an Eastern Christian church that follows the traditional Christology and ecclesiology of the historical Church of the East. [ 9 ]