tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-73042886598650075.post4662749338898545033..comments2024-03-22T11:37:52.668-05:00Comments on Byzantine, Texas: Syrian Orthodox Church Patriarch survives suicide bomberByzantine, TXhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17845681957622343484noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-73042886598650075.post-38022851903178846622016-06-22T04:12:03.078-05:002016-06-22T04:12:03.078-05:00Yes indeed. Mor Ignatios Ephrem is patriarch of th...Yes indeed. Mor Ignatios Ephrem is patriarch of the Syriac Orthodox Church. Our beloved Assyrians are of a different church but are themselves bearing a heavy load of martyrdom exile a n d , torture while the Western powers watch.....Kyrie eleison! Habashihttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15746791255306731315noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-73042886598650075.post-42643531824582085782016-06-21T17:17:18.653-05:002016-06-21T17:17:18.653-05:00There seems to be some confusion in this article b...There seems to be some confusion in this article between the Syriac Orthodox Church, which is a non-Chalcedonian "Miaphysite" Oriental Orthodox church (along with the Armenian Apostolic Church, the Coptic Orthodox Church, the Ethiopian [and Eritrean] Orthodox Church, and the Indian Syro-Malankara Orthodox Church) and the "Holy Catholic and Apostolic Church of the East and of the Assyrians" (to give it its full name), which has often been characterized as "Nestorian." The people adhering to both the "Syriac" church and the "Assyrian" church were traditionally referred to locally as "Suriane" (Syrians) and it was only in the 1870s that the "Assyrians" began to adopt that name to differentiate themselves from their Miaphysite counterpart, as well as from their "Chaldean" Eastern Catholic/"Uniate" brethren.William Tighehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16634494183165592707noreply@blogger.com