Syriac Orthodox Church
| Syriac Orthodox Church | |
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| Autocephaly / Talk | 543 (episcopal consecration of Jacques Baradaeus ) |
| Current primate | Patriarch Ignatius Zakka I Iwas |
| Headquarters | Damascus, Syria |
| Primary territory | Middle East |
| Territorial Expansion | America, Europe, Australia, India |
| Rite | Western Syriac |
| Language (s) liturgical (s) | Syriac |
| Calendar | Gregorian |
| Estimated population | 5.5 million (3 500 000 in India ) |
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The Syriac Orthodox Church is an autocephalous Eastern Orthodox Church. It belongs to all churches of the three councils (or Eastern Orthodox). The head of the Church carries the title of Patriarch of Antioch and All the East, with residence in Damascus (incumbent: His Holiness Ignatius Zakka I Iwas since 1980 ).
The title of Patriarch of Antioch is highly competitive and is now also carried by four other church leaders.
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The Syriac Orthodox Church (Antiochian) is also known by other names:
- Syriac Orthodox Church
- Syrian Orthodox Church
- Syrian Orthodox Church
- Jacobite Church
- West Syriac Church
- Syrian Church of the West History Main article: Church of Antioch.
The roots of the Syriac Orthodox Church are to be found in the Christological disputes that pepper the Late Antiquity. The Monophysite recognize only one nature in Christ, the divine nature so superior to human nature as it has absorbed. An ecumenical council was convoked in 451 at Chalcedon. This installment: the Christ is both fully God and fully man. The monophysitism is doomed. If this satisfies the West, it raises a lot of opposition in the East. In Syria , opposition to the Council of Chalcedon is led by Patriarch Severus of Antioch and the Bishop of Philoxene Mabboug. In the sixth century, the Empress Theodora supports Syriac. She appoint two bishops whose Syriac Jacques Baradaeus occupying the seat of Edessa from 542 to 578. He travels Asia Minor and Syria ordering priests , deacons , bishops and thus constituting a parallel hierarchy that gives rise to the Syriac Orthodox Church or Church Jacobite. Cities being faithful to the official theology of the Byzantine Empire , the Syriac Orthodox Church is growing in the rural interior of Syria and found refuge in convents . It was not until the seventh century, with the Arab invasion that the church can grow.
Former Jurisdiction:
Organization
Patriarchal Headquarters
Members of the Holy Synod of the Church in Damascus
The head of the church still bears the title of Patriarch of Antioch while the Patriarchate was moved several times:
- in Malatya ( Mor Monastery Barsawmo ) from 1034 to 1293
- to Mardin ( Mor Monastery Hananyo ) from 1293 to 1924
- at Homs in 1924 to 1959
- Damascus since 1959
Territorial organization
Middle East
Midyat church in Turkey - Iraq
- Archdiocese of Baghdad and Basra
- Archdiocese of d-Mor Mattay Dayro
- Archdiocese of Mosul
Rest of world
Church in Lidcombe in Australia - Europe
- Patriarchal Vicariate of Netherlands
- Patriarchal Vicariate of Belgium and France
- Patriarchal Vicariate of Germany North (based in Berlin)
- Patriarchal Vicariate of Central Germany (headquarters in Gutersloh)
- Patriarchal Vicariate of Southern Germany (headquarters in Kirchhausen)
- Patriarchal Vicariate of Switzerland and Austria
- Archdiocese of Scandinavia
- Patriarchal Vicariate Sweden
- Patriarchal Vicariate of Great Britain
- America
- Oceania
- Patriarchal Vicariate for Australia and New Zealand
The Church in India
Main article: Syro-Malankara Orthodox.The Malankara Orthodox Syrian Church is an autonomous jurisdiction of the Syriac Orthodox Church in India under the name Maphrianat-Catholicosate India.
centrifugal movements and schisms
Relations with other Churches
The Church is a member of the World Council of Churches (since 1955 ) and the Council of Churches of the Middle East.
Relations with other Eastern Orthodox Churches
Patriarch annually participates in the meeting of the Primates of the Oriental Orthodox Churches of the Middle East.
Relations with other Churches of Syriac tradition
Main article: Dialogue between the Churches of Syriac tradition.Since 1994 , the Syriac Orthodox Church participating in a series of ecumenical discussions with other Churches of Syriac tradition, initiated by the Pro Oriente Foundation, an organization dependent on the Catholic Diocese of Vienna in Austria. These discussions bring together representatives of churches and separated Catholics, Syriac tradition (West Syriac Orthodox Church, Syriac Catholic Church , Malankara Orthodox Church , Syro-Malankara Catholic Church , Maronite Church ) and East Syriac tradition ( Apostolic Assyrian Church of the East , Ancient Church of the East , Chaldean Catholic Church , Catholic Church Syro-Malabar ).
Relations with the Roman Catholic Church
- Joint Declaration Pope Paul VI Patriarch Ignatius Jacques III (1971)
- Joint Declaration Pope John Paul II Patriarch Ignatius Zakka I Iwas (1984)
See also
Internal Links
- List of primates of the Syriac Orthodox Church
- Thomas Christians
- Syriac Catholic Church
- Syriac
- Mor Gabriel Monastery
- Monastery Mor Hananyo
- Monastery Mor Marqos
- Mor Mattay Monastery
- Monastery of Mor Ephrem Maaret Saidnaya
- Mor Ephrem monastery in Losser
- Morth Maryam Monastery of Tell Wardiyat
- Church of the Virgin Mary Hah
- Maphrianat of the East
- Syriac Orthodox Church in Europe
- Aramaic
External Links
- (In) Syriac Orthodox Resources
- (En) Syriac Institute of Belgium
- (In) CNEWA - Syriac Orthodox Church of Antioch
- (En) Syriac Orthodox Community of France
- (En) Syriac Youth Club (Catholic)
- (In) Syriac Church in Turkey
- (In) Shroro - SOC Digest
- (In) Syriac Orthodox Community of the United Kingdom
Bibliography
- Sebastien de Courtois, Forgotten Genocide. Eastern Christians, the last Arameans, Ellipses, Paris , 2002 ( ISBN 272981230X )
- Sebastien de Courtois / Douchane Novakovic, The Last Arameans, the forgotten people of Jesus, La Table Ronde, Paris , 2004 ( ISBN 2710327171 )
- Jacques Rhetore, Christians to beasts, Cerf, Paris, 2005 ( ISBN 2204072435 )
- Claude Selis, The Syrian Orthodox and Catholics, Brepols (col. son of Abraham), Turnhout , 1988 ( ISBN 2503823629 )
- Vahe Tachjian, France in Cilicia and Upper Mesopotamia to the borders of Turkey, Syria and Iraq (1919-1933), L'Harmattan (col. People and Societies), Paris , 2004 ( ISBN 2845864418 )
- Jean-Pierre Valognes Life and Death of the Christian Orient, Fayard, Paris , 1994 ( ISBN 2213030642 )
- Claude Guerillot The Church of Antioch Syriac Orthodox Church martyrdom IA, Vega, Filmography
- Robert Alaux, Latest Assyrians , Paris , 2003 (documentary film of 52 minutes)
Nahro Beth Kinne and Robert Alaux "Seyfo disposal", (Brussels), 2006 (documentary film of 52 minutes)
References
The three Councils of Churches (Oriental Orthodox Churches)Coptic Orthodox Church ( Orthodox Church UK ) Ethiopian Orthodox Church Eritrean Orthodox Church
Armenian Apostolic Church ( Catholicosate of All Armenians , Catholicosate of Cilicia )
Syriac Orthodox Church ( Malankara Orthodox Syrian Church ) Malankara Orthodox Church Malabar Independent Church ( Syro-Orthodox French )See also: two councils of churches - churches of the seven councils - Eastern Catholic Churches
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