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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 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 estimations. [159] The community formed and developed in the Middle Ages. The Syriac Orthodox Christians of the Middle East speak Aramaic.
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 ...
Oriental Orthodox cathedrals in Syria: Cathedral of Saint Ephrem the Syrian in Aleppo (Syriac Orthodox) Forty Martyrs Cathedral in Aleppo (Armenian Apostolic) Saint Mary of the Holy Belt (Um Al Zennar) Syriac Orthodox Cathedral in Homs (Syriac Orthodox) Cathedral of Saint George in Damascus (Syriac Orthodox)
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1914) as Maphrian (Syriac Orthodox Catholicos). [178] This was not recognised by the Syriac Orthodox Church. [197] Previously ʿAbdulmasīḥ II himself had declined the request for the installation of a Maphrianate for India in 1902 during his patriarchate. [198]
However, due to the developments of the Greco-Turkish War of 1919–1922, the local Orthodox element evacuated the region entirely in the Greek-Turkish population exchange of 1923. From 1990, the titular metropolitan of Philadelphia, appointed by the Ecumenical Patriarchate of Constantinople, is Meliton Karras. [1]
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 ...