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  Syriac Catholic Church - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
The Syriac Catholic Church or Syrian Catholic Church is a Christian church in the Levant having practices and rites in common with the Syriac Orthodox Church.
The present Syriac Catholic Patriarch of Antioch is Mar Ignatius Peter VIII since February 2001 and resides in Beirut, Lebanon.
In 1829 the Turkish government granted legal recognition to the Syriac Catholic Church, and the residence of the Patriarch was established at Aleppo in 1831.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Syrian_Catholic   (1295 words)

  
 West Syrian Rite
The rite used by the Jacobite sect in Syria and by the Catholic Syrians is in its origin simply the old rite of Antioch in the Syriac language.
In the seven kept for Syrian Catholic use what alterations have been made chiefly the omission of redundant prayers, simplication of confused parts in which the Diaconicum and the Euchologion had become mixed together.
The Maronite Rite is merely a Romanized adaptation of that of the West Syrians.
www.catholicity.com /encyclopedia/s/syrian_rite,west.html   (1688 words)

  
 Christology
the Syrian Church of Antioch, the Latin Church of Rome, the Coptic Church of Alexandria and the Byzantine Church of Constantinople.
They split from the Syrian church of Antioch and established themselves a center of leadership in Madaen, Iraq, and later on, to Baghdad in 762 A.D. Until recently, their church was known as "the Syrian church of the East", or the "Syrian Nestorian Church", which in the 2Oth century changed to "the Assyrian church".
The Patriarch convened a Universal Synod of the Syrian Orthodox Church in 1975 and excommunicated the Catholicose Augen I. Consequently the Malankara Jacobite Syrian Orthodox Church elected Mor Philexinos Paulose as the new Catholicose-designate and in 1975 and he was ordained as Catholicose Mor Baselios Paulose II for the Indian Church for the Bava kakshi.
www.gsbkerala.com /christ/christian.htm   (13940 words)

  
 CNS STORY: Vatican condemns kidnapping of Syrian Catholic archbishop in Iraq
VATICAN CITY (CNS) -- A Catholic archbishop was kidnapped in Mosul, Iraq, the latest act of violence against the Christian minority in the country, the Vatican said.
Catholics in the northern Mosul region have reported increasing acts of violence and intimidation against Christians in recent months; they attribute the violence to Islamic extremists.
Most recently, an Armenian Catholic church and the Chaldean Catholic bishop's residence were destroyed Dec. 7 in two separate bomb attacks in Mosul.
www.catholicnews.com /data/stories/cns/0500291.htm   (398 words)

  
 CUF.org :: Catholics United for the Faith   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-25)
In 506, the Armenian bishops formally rejected the Christological definitions of the Council of Chalcedon (451), and thus the Armenian Apostolic Church was born.
Catholic missionary activity began in 1856, and Pope Saint Pius X appointed a bishop for the Church in 1911.
The archbishop of the Pittsburgh metropolitan is Archbishop Basil Myron Schott, O.F.M. (born 1939, appointed 2002).
www.cuf.org /Faithfacts/details_view.asp?ffID=177   (3323 words)

  
 Religious - Christian - Middle East Areas Adjacent to the Balkan Peninsula and the Caucasus Region
The Syrian Antiochian Orthodox Church and the Assyrian Orthodox Church and the Syriac Orthodox Church - Patriarchate of Antioch and All the East
It is in communion with the Mar Thoma Syrian Church and with the Church of England.
This Syro-Malabar Catholic Church is an automous Catholic Church of the Chaldean (Eastern Syrian) liturgical, historical and cultural tradition.
learning.lib.vt.edu /slav/relig_chr_mideast.html   (4563 words)

  
 Crisis Magazine
Indeed, even the term “Roman Catholic” isn’t quite right—it was actually a derogatory label assigned to us by Anglican Protestants, trying to legitimize their own use of the term “Catholic” over and against that foreign Church loyal to the pope of Rome.
In 1895, Pope Leo XIII of Rome reestablished the patriarchate of Alexandria for the Coptic Catholic Church.
In response, Constantinople excommunicated the Catholic patriarch and appointed a Greek as the Orthodox patriarch of Antioch.
www.crisismagazine.com /julaug2005/feature1.htm   (5123 words)

  
 Basile Georges Casmoussa, 66, the Iraqi Catholic archbishop of Mosul was kidnapped on January 17, 2005
Syrian Catholic Archbishop Basile Georges Casmoussa of Mosul, Iraq, is pictured in Bangkok, Thailand, Oct. 14.
Syrian Catholic Archbishop Basile Georges Casmoussaas (L) greets Pope John Paul II during an audience in Saint Peter's Square at the Vatican, in this November 22, 2000 photo.
The Iraqi Catholic archbishop of Mosul who was kidnapped at gunpoint on January 17, 2005, has been freed, the Misna Italian missionary agency reported on Tuesday.
www.catholicpressphoto.com /servizi/17-01-2005-casmoussa   (118 words)

  
 News - Vatican - Catholic World Report - January 2001
Ignace Moussa Daoud I, Patriarch for the Syrian Catholic Church—also known under the title Patriarch of Antioch of the Syrians—will replace Italian Cardinal Achille Silvestrini as prefect for the Congregation of Eastern Churches.
On July 6, 1994, the Syrian Catholic bishops’ synod elected Bishop Daoud to the head of the archpatriarchate of Homs, Syria.
The Syrian patriarch was present in Rome a few days prior to his nomination, leading a group of Syrian Catholics who had come to celebrate their Church’s Jubilee.
www.catholic.net /rcc/Periodicals/Igpress/2001-01/vatican.html   (1202 words)

  
 CATHOLIC ENCYCLOPEDIA: Maronites
Like the other Catholic communities of the Turkish Empire, the Maronites are under the protection of France, but in their case the protectorate is combined with more cordial relations dating from the connection between this people and the French as early as the twelfth century.
Maro, a Syrian monk, who died in the fifth century and is noticed by Theodoret (Religionis Historia, xvi), had gathered together some disciples on the banks of the Orantes, between Emesa and Apamea.
But the Maronites, with the Catholic Patriarch of Antioch, St. John Maro, at their head, routed the Greeks near Amiun, and saved that autonomy which they were able to maintain through succeeding ages.
www.newadvent.org /cathen/09683c.htm   (5166 words)

  
 Syrian Catholic Church
By this, the Syrian branch is allowed to retain its customs and rites, even when these differ from the traditions of the Roman church.
Many Syrian Catholic priests are today married, even if they legally are bound to celibacy since 1888.
18th century: The Syrian Catholics suffers from much persecution from the Ottoman rulers, as they considered the Syrian Orthodox to be the true Syrian Christians.
i-cias.com /e.o/syr_cath.htm   (356 words)

  
 Chaldeans
The Syrian Catholic church belongs to the Eastern rite of Catholicism.
It is one of a number of semi-autonomous Catholic churches in the Middle East, which pledge allegiance to the Pope in Rome but enjoy a degree of independence in their religious rites.
Casmoussa is a member of the Syrian Catholic church, an ancient rite present mostly in the Middle East.
www.exorthodoxforchrist.com /chaldeans.htm   (1897 words)

  
 Syrian Orthodox Church
The Syrian Orthodox Church (see article on the term 'Orthodox') uses the Antiochene liturgy, and performs it in Syriac, which is a language close to Aramaic, the language Jesus spoke.
The background for this was that many Christians supported the Monophysitic idea that Jesus had only one nature, not 2 (divine and human), as the other large group in the region, the Nestorians believed.
1663: The Syrian Church splits, and one group becomes affiliated with the Roman Catholic Church, and accepts the pope in Rome as the highest authority.
lexicorient.com /e.o/syr_orth.htm   (440 words)

  
 Catholic World News : Pope Recognizes New Leader for Syrian Catholic Church
Patriarch Ignace Pierre VIII was elected by the Syrian Catholic synod of bishops on February 16, to fill the post that was vacated when Patriarch Ignace Moussa I Daoud resigned to take up his new duties as prefect of the Congregation for Eastern Churches.
The Syrian Church broke with Rome early in the 5th century, after a series of Christological disputes.
In 1782, the Syrian Orthodox Patriarch of Aleppo declared himself to be a Catholic, and successfully sought for a restoration of full communion with the Holy See.
www.cwnews.com /news/viewstory.cfm?recnum=14938   (308 words)

  
 Jihad Watch: Catholic Archbishop Abducted in Iraq
It identified the kidnapped man as Archbishop Basile Georges Casmoussa, 66, of the Syrian Catholic Church, one of the branches of the Roman Catholic Church.
The Syrian Catholic Church is the segment of the Church of Antioch that left the communion of the Church universal after the Council of Chalcedon in 451 and reconciled with the Catholic Church later.
The Melkite Greek Catholic Church is made of the opponents of the Syrian Catholics at Chalcedon: the orthodox wing that held to the Christology that is still taught by Catholics, Orthodox, and most Protestants.
www.jihadwatch.org /archives/004687.php   (16577 words)

  
 || Indian Christianity ||
Pope is the supreme head of the Catholic Church.
An Oriental Catholic Patriarch is the father and head of the Church.
Bishop Marcellinus OCD appointed Bishop for the Syrians.
www.indianchristianity.org /catholic.html   (1018 words)

  
 Syrian Church
Under the efforts of Jacob Baradai, the non-Chalcedean movement gained strength and hence this Church was referred to as Jacobite (a term rejected by the Syrian Church).
The Syrian Church suffered terribly during the chaos of World War I under the Turks.
In 1999 there were over 109,547 Syrian Catholics mostly found in Syria, Lebanon and Iraq, but also in the Americas and Australia.
www.faswebdesign.com /ECPA/Syria/Syria.html   (150 words)

  
 Cath_Links_Various_Churches
*The Melkite Greek Catholic Patriarchate of Antioch and All the East.
*The Catholic Patriarchate of Cilicia of the Armenians:
, Patriarch of Cilicia of the Catholic Armenians)
www.tboyle.net /Catholicism/Cath_Links_Various_Churche.html   (1544 words)

  
 THE EASTERN CATHOLIC CHURCHES
The liturgy is of the East Syrian or Chaldean rite.
The Ethiopian (and Eritrean) Catholic Church follows the ancient Coptic rite of Alexandria and is under the jurisdiction of the Coptic Catholic Patriarch of Alexandria.
The entire Byzantine Catholic community was moved to Greece in a general exchange of populations between Greece and Turkey in the 1920s, and an Apostolic Exarchate was established in 1923 in Athens.
maryourmother.net /Eastern.html   (4632 words)

  
 CATHOLIC ENCYCLOPEDIA: West Syrian Rite
Of the manifold Syrian Anaphoras the Catholics use seven only -- those of St. James, St.John, St. Peter, St.
Xystus is attached to the Ordo communis in their official book; that of St. John is said on the chief feasts.
The other books of the Catholics -- the Diaconicum, officebook, and ritual -- are edited at Rome, Beirut, and the Patriarchal press Sharfé; they are considerably the most accessible, the best-arranged books in which to study this rite.
www.newadvent.org /cathen/14417a.htm   (1670 words)

  
 Europe and Asia - Catholic Church Local History and Ancestors Genealogy Research
Catholic Sabah - Official News of the Dioceses of Keningau and Kota Kinabalu.
Finally, the Catholic Church’s normal hierarchical structure was established in Russia in 1782, when the Mogilev Archdiocese was created to cover the largest territory in the world.
Catholic Church in Croatia - Territorial Divisions of the Catholic Church in Croatia.
home.att.net /~Local_Catholic/Catholic-International.htm   (3821 words)

  
 Adherents.com
"Syrian Orthodox: A remnant of the Monophysite church of Syria.
"The Syrian Jacobites in America, probably not exceeding ten thousand in number, are organized under the jurisdiction of the patriarch of Syria in three separate churches.
Syrian Orthodox Church, sometimes called Jacobite, for the 6th-century bishop Jacob Baradaeus.; Ethiopian Orthodox Church, linked until 1959 with the Copts.; Syrian Orthodox Church of the Malabar (southern India), also known as the St.
www.adherents.com /Na/Na_622.html   (2642 words)

  
 RBI puts lid on Catholic Syrian impasse; spikes share transfer
The decision is likely to put to rest the ongoing tussle between the Siam Vaidya group and the Syrian Catholic community of Kerala to gain control over the bank.
Sources at Catholic Syrian Bank said that the central bank rejected the proposal on Tuesday.
A Siam Vaidya representative said that the group's investment in Catholic Syrian Bank should be seen as a friendly investment and that it should in no way affect the functioning of the 75-year-old bank.
www.expressindia.com /fe/daily/19980129/02955044.html   (372 words)

  
 Links
Syrian Orthodox Church of Antioch, maintained by the Archdiocese of the Eastern USA.
The Syrian Orthodox Church of Antioch, maintained by Theodora, Touma and Tomayess Issa, Australia.
The Paul van Moorsel Centre for Christian Art and Culture in the Middle East (The institute sponsors a research project, "The formation of a communal identity among West Syrian Christians (451-1300)" and seminars on Syriac Orthodox Christianity.
sor.cua.edu /Links/index.html   (393 words)

  
 List of Syrian Catholic Patriarchs of Antioch - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
This is a list of Syrian Catholic Patriarchs of Antioch.
They are head of the Syrian Catholic Church, one of the Eastern Rite churches in union with Rome.
For previous line of patriarchs see Syrian Orthodox Patriarch
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Syrian_Catholic_Patriarch_of_Antioch   (81 words)

  
 SOCNews - Dialogue between the Syrian Orthodox & Syrian Catholic Churches   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-25)
The meeting was presided jointly by His Holiness Mor Ignatius Zakka I, Iwas, the Syrian Orthodox Patriarch of Antioch and All The East, and His Beatitude Mor Ignatius Moussa I, Da'oud, Patriarch of Antioch for the Syrian Catholics.
By these two declarations a new page in the relations between the two apostolic Churches, the Syrian Orthodox Church of Antioch and the Roman Catholic Church was opened.
The two Patriarchs appointed Metropolitan Yohana Ibrahim and Metropolitan Michael Jamil as co-presidents to the Committee and decided to hold the next meeting at St. Ephraim's Monastery in Ma'arrat Saydnaya, Damascus, Syria under the presidency of the two Patriarchs in the second half of the year 2000.
sor.cua.edu /SOCNews/1999/99110201.html   (415 words)

  
 The PUNK priest
The Churches known today as Eastern Catholic are parts of the (for the most part) larger non-Catholic Churches that separated from the Universal Church at various points between the fifth and eleventh centuries.
The Oriental Orthodox Churches separated after the Council of Chalcedon in AD 451 as a result of the Monophysite heresy Finally, the largest group of churches, the Eastern Orthodox, broke union in 1054 due to the Great Schism between Rome and Constantinople.
The Alexandrian, Armenian, and West Syrian rites resulted from the Monophysite heresy, the East Syrian from the Nestorian heresy, and the Byzantine from the Great Schism of 1054.
www.thepunkpriest.com /eastern.asp   (1280 words)

  
 Catholic Syrian Bank, Private Sector Banks In India
Catholic Syrian Bank, Private Sector Banks In India
Catholic Syrian Bank was established on 26th November, 1920 at Thrissur, Kerala (India).
The Catholic Syrian Bank Ltd. Kunnathuparambil Shopping Complex, T.K.Road, Thiruvalla 689 101, P.B. No. 21 Pathanamthitta Dt.
finance.indiamart.com /investment_in_india/catholic_syrian_bank.html   (348 words)

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