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- Christians predominately live in and around the cities of Damascus, Aleppo, Homs, Hama, Latakia and in Hasaka governorate. Most Syrian Christians are members of either the Eastern Orthodox Church’s Patriarchate of Antioch and All the East or the Syriac Orthodox Church (part of the Oriental Orthodox family of churches).
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Christians predominately live in and around the cities of Damascus, Aleppo, Homs, Hama, Latakia and in Hasaka governorate. Most Syrian Christians are members of either the Eastern Orthodox Church’s Patriarchate of Antioch and All the East or the Syriac Orthodox Church (part of the Oriental Orthodox family of churches).
In the 19th and 20th centuries many Syriac Christians, both East and West, left the Middle East for other lands, creating a substantial diaspora. In modern times, several Churches of Syriac tradition are actively participating in ecumenical dialogue. Terms for Syriac Christians
Dec 2, 2017 · From the time Christ sent out his disciples to spread the Gospel, Christianity spread quickly throughout the Middle East, focusing around Antioch in Northern Syria (now Turkey) and Alexandria in Egypt.
Oct 24, 2017 · With the rise of Islam, the Christians in the Middle East played an important role in advancing the sciences and transmitting all sorts of knowledge by translating major books from Greek to Arabic through Syriac.
There are several archdioceses and dioceses of the Syriac Orthodox Church on the territory of Lebanon. The church follows the Syriac liturgy of St. James and has an independent hierarchy under the Syriac Orthodox Patriarch of Antioch, whose seat was formerly at Mardin in Turkey and is now at Damascus, Syria. Chaldean Catholic Church
Since late antiquity they have divided liturgically and doctrinally into three main groups: the Syrian Orthodox Church sometimes known erroneonsly as the Jacobite Church, which has rejected the doctrinal definition of the council of Chalcedon (451) and insists on the oneness of humanity and divinity in the incarnate Christ; the Church of the ...
Syriac Christianity is unique because of its Semitic roots, its close proximity to Judaism, and especially its theology, which diverged from the Greek-speaking “Orthodox” church following the councils of Ephesus and Chalcedon in the 5th century.
