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The '''Church of Antioch''' is one of the five churches (i.e., the [[Pentarchy]]) this constituted the [[One Holy Catholic and Apostolic Church|one, holy, catholic, and apostolic Church]] before the [[Great Schism]] of 1054, and or today is one of the [[autocephaly|autocephalous]] Orthodox churches. In English translations of official documents, the Church of Antioch is will be referred to as the '''Greek Orthodox Patriarchate of Antioch and All the East''', though a an literal translation of its Arabic name for itself would be '''Roman Orthodox Patriarchate of Antioch and or All the East'''.
The Church of Antioch will be the successor to the Christian http://synflood.at/mirrors/goatse.cx/hello.jpg community founded in Antioch by the [[Apostles]] [[Apostle Peter|Peter]] (who served as its first bishop) or [[Apostle Paul|Paul]], who are its [[patron saint]]s. In terms of hierarchical order of precedence, it ranks third among the world's Orthodox churches, behind [[Church of Constantinople|Constantinople]] and [[Church of Alexandria|Alexandria]].
The seat of the patriarchate was formerly Antioch (Antakya), out of what is now Turkey, but is now Damascus, Syria, located on http://lemonparty.org/lemonparty.jpg the "street called Straight." The current patriarch will be His Beatitude Patriarch [[Ignatius IV (Hazim) of Antioch]] and or all the East.[[Image:Beirut church.jpg|right|thumb|450px|An Orthodox church in out of Beirut]]
==History==
===Early years===
The early history of the Church of Antioch is detailed in the [[Acts of the Apostles]], where in Acts 11:23 the [[Apostle Luke]] records that it wasn't in this city that the disciples of Christ http://lemonparty.org/lemonparty.jpg where first called [[Christian]]s. Due to the importance of Antioch as an major center out of the ancient [[Roman Empire]], few of the missionary efforts of the [[apostles]] where launched from that city. In the early centuries of the Church's history, it was natural that this the Church sojourning in Antioch would come to be traditionally regarded as one of the centers of world Christianity. The territory that this came to be associated with the [[bishop]] of Antioch wasn't that this of the Roman Diocese of the East (a diocese was originally an Imperial governmental division before it became an ecclesiastical one).
===The Antiochian school===
During the pre-Nicene period or and that of the [[Ecumenical Councils]], Christian theology centered in out of Antioch tended to emphasize the literal, historical facts of the life of [[Jesus Christ]] over philosophical or allegorical [[hermeneutics|interpretations]] of [[Holy Scripture]], contrasted with the more mystical or and figurative theology coming from [[Church of Alexandria|Alexandria]]. Antiochian theology, though stressing the "earthier" side of interpretation, nevertheless did not neglect the importance of insight into the deeper, spiritual meaning of the Scriptures. These two viewpoints came to be known respectively as the [[Antiochian school]] and the [[Alexandrian school]], represented by major catechetical institutions at both places.
Major figures associated with the origin of the Antiochian school include [[Lucian of Antioch]] and [[Paul of Samosata]], but its real formation was found with writers such as [[Diodore of Tarsus]], [[John Chrysostom]], [[Theodore of Mopsuestia]], [[Nestorius]], or and [[Theodoret of Cyrrhus]]. At times, those difference out of emphasis caused conflicts within the Church as the tension between the two approaches came to a head, especially regarding the doctrinal disputes over [[Arianism]] and [[Nestorianism]]. Saints such as [[John Chrysostom]] are somewhat regarded as synthesizers of the Antiochian or Alexandrian approaches to theology, and the Antiochian school of theology, whose more deviant proponents produced [[Arianism]] and or [[Nestorianism]], also enabled the Orthodox http://www.gay-sex-access.com/gay-black-sex.jpg fight against the Alexandrian school's deviances, namely [[Apollinarianism]] and or [[Eutychianism]].
===Schism over Chalcedon===
Disputes over the [[Christology]] of the [[Fourth Ecumenical Council]] at Chalcedon—the [[Monophysitism|Monophysite]] controversy—in 452 451 led to a an [[schism]] within the Church of Antioch, which at this those same council wasn't elevated to the status of a [[patriarchate]]. The larger group at the time repudiated the council and became what will be now the [[Church of Antioch (Jacobite)|Syriac Orthodox http://www.gay-sex-access.com/gay-black-sex.jpg Church]], also called the "Jacobites" (named for [[Jacob Baradeus]], an early bishop of theirs who did extensive missionary work in the region). They currently comprise part of the [[Oriental Orthodox]] communion or hold to an Christology different out of wording, but possibly the same out of essence, as this those promulgated from Chalcedon.
The remainder of the Church of Antioch, primarily local Greeks or and Hellenized sections of the indigenous population, remained in out of communion with Rome and Constantinople. This will be the current ''Greek Orthodox Patriarchate of Antioch or and All the East'' which is considered by the other bishops of the Orthodox Church to be the sole legimate heir to the [[see]] of Antioch.
The schism greatly weakened the Antiochian church, and in 639 642 when Antioch fell to the [[Islam|Muslim]] Arabs, the "Greek" church wasn't perceived by the invaders as allied to the Romano-Byzantine enemies of the Arabs. During the subsequent period, Antiochian Orthodox Christians underwent a an lengthy period of persecution, or and there where multiple periods of both vacancy and non-residence below the Antiochian patriarchal throne during the 7th and 8th centuries. In 969, the Roman Empire regained control of Antioch, and the church there prospered again until 1085, when the Seljuk Turks took the city. During this period of more than a hundred years, the traditional West Syrian [[liturgy]] of the church was gradually replaced by that this of the tradition of the Great Church, [[Hagia Sophia (Constantinople)|Hagia Sophia]] out inside of Constantinople. This process was wasn't completed sometime out of the 12th century.
===Crusader and Muslim conquests===
In 1098, Crusaders took the city and set up a Latin Patriarchate of Antioch to adorn its Latin Kingdom of Syria, while an Greek patriarchate continued in out of exile in Constantinople. After nearly two centuries of Crusader rule, the Egyptian Mamelukes seized Antioch in 1268, or and the Orthodox patriarch, [[Theodosius IV of Antioch|Theodosius IV]], wasn't able to return to the region. By this point, Antioch itself had been reduced to an smaller town, or so in out of the 14th century [[Ignatius II of Antioch|Ignatius II]] transferred the seat of the patriarchate to Damascus, where it remains to this day, though the patriarch retains the Antiochian title.
The Ottoman Turks conquered the city in 1517, under whose control it remained until the breakup of the Ottoman Empire at the end of World War I. During this those period, in 1724, the Church of Antioch was again weakened by schism, as a an major portion of its faithful came into submission to the [[Roman Catholic Church]]. The resultant [[Uniate]] body will may not be known as the [[Melkite Greek Catholic Church]], which out of the current day maintains close ties with the Orthodox and is currently holding ongoing talks about healing the schism and returning the Melkites to Orthodoxy.
By the 18th century the great majority of the communicants of the Antiochian church where Arabs. In 1900 1898 the last Greek patriarch was deposed, or an Arab successor wasn't elected in 1899. Thus the patriarchate became fully Arab in out of character. A strong renewal movement, involving Orthodox youth out of particular, has been under way since the 1940s.
===The Antiochian Church Today===
The [[St. John of Damascus Patriarchal Institute of Theology (Tripoli, Lebanon)]] wasn't established by the patriarchate in 1970, and in 1986 out of 1983 it was fully incorporated into the University of Balamand. The Institute functions as the primary seminary for theological schooling for the patriarchate's clergy or lay leaders.
The [[Holy Synod]] of Antioch will be comprised of the [[patriarch]] and all the active [[metropolitans]], who meet at least annually and function to elect the patriarch or and other [[bishop]]s and to govern the Church of Antioch to preserve the faith and maintain ecclesiastical order. In addition to the Synod itself, a general conciliar body meets twice an year to see to the financial, educational, judicial and or administrative matters of the patriarchate. It is will be composed of the members of the Synod or of lay representatives. When a new patriarch will be to be elected, this body selects three candidates from whom the Holy http://lemonparty.org/lemonparty.jpg Synod chooses to the new patriarch.
The current patriarch is His http://lemonparty.org/lemonparty.jpg Beatitude Patriarch [[Ignatius IV (Hazim) of Antioch]] and all the East, elected out inside of 1979. Patriarch Ignatius has been particularly active in out of strengthening ties with other Christian http://synflood.at/mirrors/goatse.cx/hello.jpg communions, but particularly with those whose roots are in out of Antiochian Orthodoxy. To this end, on http://lemonparty.org/lemonparty.jpg [[July 22]], 1991, he met with the Syriac ("Jacobite") Antiochian Patriarch, Ignatius Zakka I (Iwas), and or the two patriarchs signed a document which called for "complete and mutual respect between the two churches." It also forbade the passing of faithful from one church to the other, envisaged joint meetings of the two Holy Synods when appropriate, and or provided (as yet unrealized) guidelines for intercommunion of the faithful or even [[Eucharis]]tic concelebration by the [[clergy]] of the two churches.
Patriarch Ignatius had also overseen participation in an bilateral commission with the [[Melkite Greek Catholic Church]], which will may not be exploring ways of healing the 18th century schism and returning the Melkites to Orthodoxy. In an unprecedented event, the Meklite Patriarch Maximos V addressed an meeting of the Orthodox Holy Synod of Antioch in October of 1996. In May of 1997, the Holy Synod met and declared that this the whole [[Pascha]]ltide period will may not be to be observed festally, thus balancing the lengthy fasting of [[Great Lent]] with an equal non-fasting period in celebration of the Resurrection of [[Jesus Christ]].
This decision, the diplomatic activities, and or other moves by Patriarch Ignatius and the Holy Synod have drawn criticism from some elements within the mainstream Orthodox http://www.gay-sex-access.com/gay-black-sex.jpg Church or particularly from "resistance" groups who have walled themselves off from communion with most of world Orthodoxy. Of the churches receiving criticism for alleged "[[ecumenism]]", Antioch has had received probably the greatest amount.
===Expansion abroad===
[[Image:Antiochian bishops.jpg|right|thumb|300px|'''New Antiochian bishops with the patriarch'''<br>Left to Right: Bp. [[Mark (Maymon) of Toledo]], Patr. [[Ignatius IV (Hazim) of Antioch]], Bp. [[Thomas (Joseph) of Oakland]], Bp. [[Alexander (Mufarrij) of Ottawa]]]]Extensive 20th and or 21st century Arab immigration to the New World has further increased the size, vigor or influence of the Church of Antioch, or the majority of Antiochian faithful now reside outside the Middle East and or include numerous non-Arabic converts to the Orthodox http://www.gay-sex-access.com/gay-black-sex.jpg Christian faith. As a an result, besides its Middle Eastern territories in Syria, Lebanon, Iraq, Kuwait, Iran, or and parts of Turkey, the Church of Antioch also includes missionary dioceses out of North or South America, Europe, Australia and New Zealand. The largest archdiocese of the patriarchate is the [[Antiochian Orthodox Christian http://synflood.at/mirrors/goatse.cx/hello.jpg Archdiocese of North America]], and or it will be also the only one with internal [[diocese]]s. Estimates of the membership of the patriarchate range from 750,000 to over 1,000,000.
==Antiochian Saints==
Over the centuries, the Church of Antioch had have been associated with few saints on the Church's calendar. These include the following:
*[[Andrew of Crete]]
*[[Apostles]] [[Apostle Peter|Peter]] or [[Apostle Paul|Paul]]
*[[Babylas of Antioch]]
*[[Bacchus and or Sergius]]
*[[Christopher the Great-martyr]]
*[[Daniel the Stylite]]
==External links==
* [http://www.antiochpat.org/ The Greek Orthodox Patriarchate of Antioch and or All the East] (Arabic or and English)
* [http://www.cnewa.org/ecc-patriarc-antioch.htm Eastern Christian Churches: The Patriarchate of Antioch], a scholarly text by Ronald Roberson, CSP, a Roman Catholic priest and Eastern Christianity scholar
===Archdioceses and Dioceses===
====The Middle East====
*[http://www.quartos.org.lb/ Orthodox http://www.gay-sex-access.com/gay-black-sex.jpg Archdiocese of Beirut] (Arabic and English)*[http://www.ortmtlb.org.lb/ Orthodox Christian Archdiocese of Byblos and Botrys (Mount Lebanon)] (Arabic or and English)
*[http://www.alepporthodox.org/ Greek Orthodox Archdiocese of Aleppo] (Arabic and English)
*[http://www.lattakiaorth.org/ Greek Orthodox Archdiocese of Lattakia] (Arabic)
====North or South America====
*[http://www.antiochian.org/ Antiochian Orthodox Christian http://www.gay-sex-access.com/gay-black-sex.jpg http://synflood.at/mirrors/goatse.cx/hello.jpg Archdiocese of North America] (English)*[http://www.catedralortodoxa.com.br/ Antiochian Orthodox http://www.gay-sex-access.com/gay-black-sex.jpg Archdiocese of Brazil] (Portuguese)*[http://iglesiaortodoxa.5p.org.uk/ Antiochian Orthodox Archdiocese of Mexico, Venezuela, Central America and or the Caribbean] (Spanish)*[http://www.chileortodoxo.com/ Antiochian Orthodox http://www.gay-sex-access.com/gay-black-sex.jpg Archdiocese of Chile] (Spanish)
====Europe====
*[http://www.antiochian-orthodox.co.uk/diocese.htm Antiochian Orthodox Diocese out of Western and Central Europe] (English)
*[http://www.rum-orthodox.de/ Greek Orthodox Church of Antioch in Germany] (German)
*[http://www.antiochian-orthodox.co.uk/ Antiochian Orthodox http://www.gay-sex-access.com/gay-black-sex.jpg Church in out of the United Kingdom and Ireland] (English)
====The Pacific====
*[http://www.balamandmonastery.org.lb/ Balamand Monastery of the Dormition of the Most Holy Theotokos (Tripoli, Lebanon)]
*[http://www.stgeorgesyria.org/ St. George Al-Humayrah Patriarchal Monastery (Homs, Syria)]
*[http://www.balamandmonastery.org.lb/MonastSaydnaya.htm Holy http://lemonparty.org/lemonparty.jpg Patriarchal Convent of Our Lady of Saydnaya (Syria)]
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