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The present location '''Syriac Orthodox Church of Antioch''' or '''Patriarchate of Antioch''' is one of the [[Oriental Orthodox]] churches. Prior to the Holy [[SeeFourth Ecumenical Council|Council of Chalcedon]] in 451 the Church of Antioch was united, but after the Council two lines of patriarchs arose, one supported by the East Roman Empire that favored Chalcedon and another persecuted by the East Romans that rejected Chalcedon. The Church is situated in Bab Touma, in also known as the ''Jacobite'' Church after one of the city more prominent leaders of Damascusthe movement against Chalcedon, Syria[[Jacob Baradaeus]], and follows the [[West Syrian Rite]].
==History==The current leader Syriac Orthodox Church is His Holiness Moran Mor Ignatius Zakka I Iwasone of the oldest churches in the world, having its roots in the city of Antioch (modern Antakya, Patriarch Turkey) where the disciples of the Lord were first called Christians. Antioch was one of the great cities of the East under the Roman Empire and all played a central role in the East, Supreme Head life of the Universal Syriac Orthodox Churchin Cilicia, Syria, and Mesopotamia. At the Council of Nicaea in 325 it was recognized as a patriarchate alongside Rome and Alexandria.
== Patriarchate and other central institutions Church Worldwide Today==The spiritual care of the Syriac Orthodox Church of Antioch was vested in the Bishop of Antioch from the earliest years of Christianity. The first among the Bishops of Antioch was St. Peter who today is believed to have established a church headquartered at Antioch Bab Touma in AD 33Damascus, Syria. Given Excluding the antiquity of patriarchal Malankara Syriac Orthodox Church in India the bishopric of Antioch Syriac Orthodox Church is divided into 27 archdioceses and patriarchal vicariates scattered across the importance globe. The current primate of the Church in the city of Antioch which was a commercially significant city in the eastern parts of the Roman Empire, the First Council of [[Nicaea]] is Patriarch Ignatius Zakka I (AD 325Iwas) recognized the bishopric as a Patriarchate along with the bishoprics of Rome, Alexandria, and Jerusalem, bestowing authority for the Church in Antioch and All of the East on the Patriarch. (The Synod of Constantinople in AD 381 recognized the See of Constantinople also as a Patriarchate).
The Malankara Syriac Orthodox Church recognizes the Patriarch of Antioch as its head in both a spiritual and an administrative sense, although the Patriarchate office recognizes it as autonomous under its primate, the Catholicos of the East, who is now also recognized as second in Bab Touma, in Damascus, capital rank within the Church of Syria; but Antioch and is responsible for enthroning the Patriarch resides at the Mor Aphrem Monastery in Ma`arat Sayyidnaya located about twenty five kilometers north of DamascusAntioch.
===St. Aphrem Syrian Orthodox Theological Seminary=Structure (Outside India)==Patriarch Aphrem I Barsoum *Archdiocese of Aleppo (†1957Syria) established St. Aphrem*Archdiocese of Baghdad and Basra (Iraq)*Archdiocese of Beirut (Lebanon)*Archdiocese of Dayro d's Clerical School in 1934 in Zahle, Lebanon. In 1946 it was moved to Mor Mattai (Iraq)*Archdiocese of Homs and Hama (Syria)*Archdiocese of Jazirah and the Euphrates (Syria)*Archdiocese of Mosul, (Iraq, where it provided )*Archdiocese of Mount Abdin (Turkey)*Archdiocese of Mount Lebanon (Lebanon)*Archdiocese of Scandinavia*Patriarchal Vicariate of Adiyaman (Turkey)*Patriarchal Vicariate of Argentina*Patriarchal Vicariate of Australia and New Zealand (Oceania)*Patriarchal Vicariate of Belgium and France*Patriarchal Vicariate of Brazil*Patriarchal Vicariate of Canada*Patriarchal Vicariate of Constantinople (Turkey)*Patriarchal Vicariate of Damascus (Syria)*Patriarchal Vicariate of the Church with a good selection Eastern United States*Patriarchal Vicariate of Great Britain*Patriarchal Vicariate of graduatesJerusalem and the Holy Land (Israel, Jordan, and Palestine)*Patriarchal Vicariate of Mardin (Turkey)*Patriarchal Vicariate of the first among them being His Holiness Patriarch Mor Ignatius Zakka I Iwas Netherlands*Patriarchal Vicariate of Northern Germany*Patriarchal Vicariate of Sweden*Patriarchal Vicariate of Switzerland and many other Austria*Patriarchal Vicariate of the Church's eminences.Western United States*Patriarchal Vicariate of Zahle and Bekaa (Lebanon)
== Official Name ==In 2000 the year 1968 Patriarch Yakub III put up a building for Holy Synod ruled that the seminary name of the Church in 'AtshannehEnglish should be the "Syriac Orthodox Church". Before this it was, Bekfeyahand often still is, Lebanonknown as the "Syrian Orthodox Church." The name was changed to disassociate the Church from the polity of Syria. The official name of the Church in Syriac is ʿIdto Suryoyto Triṣuṯ Šuḇḥo, where it remained until just before 1976 when its doors were closed because of which was not changed in the war clouds breaking over Lebanon2000 ruling.
*[http://sor.cua.edu/ Syriac Orthodox Resources]
*[http://www.syrianchurch.org/ Malankara Syriac Christian Resources]
*[http://www.socdigest.org/ Shroro - The Syriac Orthodox Christian Digest]
*[http://www.suryanikadim.org/ Syriac Orthodox Church in Turkey]
*[http://www.syrianorthodoxchurch.com/ Syriac Orthodox Church in Canada]
*[[Wikipedia:Syriac Orthodox Church|''Syriac Orthodox Church'' at Wikipedia]]
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[[fr:Église d'Antioche (syriaque)]]
[[ro:Biserica Antiohiei (Siriacă)]]