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Syriac language - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Grammar of the dialects of vernacular Syriac: as spoken by the Eastern Syrians of Kurdistan, north-west Persia, and the Plain of Mosul: with notices of the vernacular of the Jews of Azerbaijan and of Zakhu near Mosul.
Western Middle Syriac is the official language of the Syriac Orthodox Church, the Syrian Catholic Church, the Maronite Church, the Malankara Syrian Orthodox Church, the Mar Thoma Church and the Syro-Malankara Catholic Church.
Eastern Middle Syriac is the liturgical language of the Assyrian Church of the East (including the Chaldean Syrian Church), the Chaldean Catholic Church and the Syro-Malabar Catholic Church.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Syriac (2055 words)



Articles - Syriac language

Western Middle Syriac is the official language of the Syriac Orthodox Church, the Syrian Catholic Church, the Maronite Church, the Malankara Syrian Orthodox Church, the Mar Thoma Church and the Syro-Malankara Catholic Church.
Eastern Middle Syriac is the liturgical language of the Assyrian Church of the East, the Chaldean Catholic Church and the Syro-Malabar Catholic Church.
Grammar of the dialects of vernacular Syriac: as spoken by the Eastern Syrians of Kurdistan, north-west Persia, and the Plain of Mosul: with notices of the vernacular of the Jews of Azerbaijan and of Zakhu near Mosul.

http://www.lastring.com/articles/Syriac_language (2055 words)



Maronite Church - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Churches : Antiochian Orthodox Church · Assyrian Church of the East · Chaldean Catholic Church · Maronite Catholic Church · Melkite Greek Catholic Church · Syriac Catholic Church · Syriac Orthodox Church
Maronites (Marunoye ܡܪܘܢܝܐܶ; in Syriac, Mâruniyya مارونية in Arabic) are members of an Eastern Catholic Church in full communion with the Pope of the Roman Catholic Church.
The head of the Maronite Church is the Maronite Patriarch of Antioch, who is elected by the bishops of the Maronite church and now resides in Bkirki, north of Beirut.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maronite (1553 words)



Syriac language - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Western Middle Syriac is the official language of the Syriac Orthodox Church, the Syrian Catholic Church, the Maronite Church, the Malankara Syrian Orthodox Church, the Mar Thoma Church and the Syro-Malankara Catholic Church.
Grammar of the dialects of vernacular Syriac: as spoken by the Eastern Syrians of Kurdistan, north-west Persia, and the Plain of Mosul: with notices of the vernacular of the Jews of Azerbaijan and of Zakhu near Mosul.
Syriac is a member of the Afro-Asiatic language family, the Semitic language sub-family, the West Semitic language branch, and the Aramaic language group.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Syriac (2038 words)



Margoneetho: Syriac Orthodox Resources

Like an exquisite pearl hidden in an oyster, the spiritual heritage of the Syriac Orthodox Church, one of the most ancient Christian churches, remains obscure to much of the world today.
SOR is not an "official" web Site of the Syriac Orthodox Church, but receives encouragement and support from its hierarchy.
Revised English translation of the definitive work on the literary heritage of the Syriac Orthodox Church by the eminent scholar and late Patriarch Mor Aphrem I Barsoum published by Gorgias Press.

http://sor.cua.edu (265 words)



St. Anthony of Padua Maronite Church, Cincinnati, Ohio - FAQ

Along with the Maronite Church the West Syriac Tradition includes the Syriac Catholic Church, whose non-Catholic counterpart is the Syrian Orthodox (Jacobite) Church; and the Syro-Malankara Catholic Church of the Kerala Coast of southern India, whose counterpart is the Malankara Orthodox Syrian Church.
Maronite Catholics are classified under the Antiochene (West) Syriac Tradition of the Catholic Communion of Churches, along with Syriac Catholics and the Syro-Malankar Catholics of India.
In the case of the Eastern Churches in general, and the Maronite Church in particular, worship language is full of poetry and deep symbolism, something that has been lost in the West.

http://www.stanthonycincinnati.com/faq (6146 words)



Syrian Orthodox Church of Antioch - Archdiocese of the Western U.S.

Thomas Syriac Orthodox Church was attacked in Baghdad, Iraq
Insurgents bomb Syriac Orthodox Church in Baghdad, Iraq
A three volume encyclopaedic work on the Aramaic heritage—language, history, and culture with a focus on the Syriac Orthodox Church in two volumes.

http://www.soc-wus.org (2241 words)



CATHOLIC ENCYCLOPEDIA: Greek Church

This is but a continuation since 1721 of the Patriarchate of Moscow, which had been established in 1589 by the Greek Patriarch of Constantinople, Jeremias II, who up to that time had ruled the Russian Orthodox Church.
A sub-type of the Syriac rite is represented by the liturgies used in the Syriac Churches of Mesopotamia and Persia; the liturgy of Sts.
The superior hierarchy of a Greek Church at the period we are treating of, viz., from the fourth to the tenth century, was composed of a patriarch, a catholicos, the greater metropolitans, the autocephalous metropolitans, the archbishops and the bishops.

http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/06752a.htm (17485 words)



Syriac Bible, Syriac Fonts, Syriac General Office, Syriac Learn, Syriac Reference, Syriac Software - Mac, Syriac Software - Windows, Syriac System, Syriac Word Processing,

In modern usage the term Syriac generally refers to the liturgical language of the Maronite Catholic Church, the Syrian Catholic Church, the Syrian Jacobite Church(NOTE: The PC term (used by the World Council of Churches) is the Syrian Orthodox Church.
Syriac (or Aramaic) continued to be spoken until the rise of Islam, when it quickly gave way to the dominant influence of Arabic.
Another dialect of Aramaic, generally referred to as Assyrian, is spoken by about 150,000 people in north-eastern Syria, Lebanon, Iraq, Iran, and the Russia.

http://www.worldlanguage.com/Languages/Syriac.htm (513 words)



Syriac Bible, Syriac Fonts, Syriac General Office, Syriac Learn, Syriac Reference, Syriac Software - Mac, Syriac Software - Windows, Syriac System, Syriac Word Processing,

In modern usage the term Syriac generally refers to the liturgical language of the Maronite Catholic Church, the Syrian Catholic Church, the Syrian Jacobite Church(NOTE: The PC term (used by the World Council of Churches) is the Syrian Orthodox Church.
Syriac (or Aramaic) continued to be spoken until the rise of Islam, when it quickly gave way to the dominant influence of Arabic.
The term Jacobite was used historically in an opproprious manner), the Nestorian (or sometimes Assyrian) Church (NOTE: The Church of the East - or sometimes Assyrian Church of the East), and a number of others.

http://www.worldlanguage.com/Languages/Syriac.htm (513 words)



THE SYRIAC CATHOLIC CHURCH: History

Today it constitutes a semi-autonomous church, called Syriac Orthodox church of the Indies.
The number of the faithfuls of the Syriacs Orthodox of the Indies is estimated to close to two million; the Catholic Malankare to half a million.
At that time, under the action of the western missionaries notably the capuchins, and thanks to the Maronites, the "Union Movement, penetrated the Syriac church extensively.

http://www.opuslibani.org.lb/church/syriac/ehistory.htm (221 words)



Syriac language

Syriac Orthodox Youth Group of Melbourne Independent social group run by and for all the youth of the Syriac Orthodox Church of Melbourne.
Syriac is an Eastern Aramaic language, which used to be spoken by followers of several church es in Turkey and Syria.
West Syrian Rite Used by the Jacobite sect in Syria and by the Catholic Syrians is in its origin simply the old rite of Antioch in the Syriac language.

http://www.serebella.com/encyclopedia/article-Syriac_language.html (455 words)



Syriac

Syriac Orthodox celebrate Easter at the Peter and Paul church.
Syriac Orthodox nuns celebrate Easter at the Peter and Paul church.
Europe's highest Syriac Orthodox priest to be buried in the Netherlands (AP Worldstream)

http://www.infoplease.com/ce6/society/A0847518.html (240 words)



Syriac Bible, Syriac Fonts, Syriac General Office, Syriac Learn, Syriac Reference, Syriac Software - Mac, Syriac Software - Windows, Syriac System, Syriac Word Processing,

In modern usage the term Syriac generally refers to the liturgical language of the Maronite Catholic Church, the Syrian Catholic Church, the Syrian Jacobite Church(NOTE: The PC term (used by the World Council of Churches) is the Syrian Orthodox Church.
Syriac (or Aramaic) continued to be spoken until the rise of Islam, when it quickly gave way to the dominant influence of Arabic.
The first Syriac alphabet developed from a later form of Aramaic used at Palmyra in Syria.

http://www.worldlanguage.com/Languages/Syriac.htm (513 words)



Syriac language and culture

A Brief Overview A few Christian denominations can claim the antiquity of the Syrian Orthodox Church of Antioch, whose foundation can be traced back to the very dawn of Christianity.
This document is intended to provide links only to sites of direct relevance to the Syrian Orthodox Church and other Oriental Orthodox Churches.
He studied at the Maronite College in Rome, published a Syriac grammar (1628), and taught Syriac and Arabic at the College of the Propaganda.

http://www.lonweb.org/link-syriac.htm (894 words)



Noturo.com Syriansk / Arameiska informationsportal

News The walls are bare and the congregation sits in chairs instead of pews, but for the members of St. Aphraim's Syriac Orthodox Church in Alexandria, the important parts are there â stained glass windows, the gold-domed altar and the people.
News On Tuesday, 22 November a 3-hour seminar was organized at the University of Stockholm, described as " the beginning of something greater to come." The topics covered at this seminar dealt with the rich Syriac heritage in the form of manuscripts and books from early church fathers and other sources.
The seminar was organized by the " Syriac- Aramaic Academic Association, SAAF", in cooperation with the department of Middle Eastern studies at the University of Stockholm, the University of SÃ¶dertÃ¶rn and the Centre dâÃ©tudes et de Recherches Oriental (CERO) which is a Lebanese institution founded in 1989 by the Maronite Antonine Order.

http://www.noturo.com (732 words)



AnyBook4Less.com - Author: George Kiraz

Publisher: Syriac Heritage Committee of the Syriac Orthodox Church
Title: The Syriac Orthodox Church of Antioch: A brief overview
Title: A computer generated concordance to the Syriac New Testament: According to the British and Foreign Bible Society's edition

http://www.anybook4less.com/author/George+Kiraz.2.html (57 words)



Encyclopedia: Maronite Catholic Church

They themselves assert at once the high antiquity and the perpetual orthodoxy of their nation; but both of these pretensions have constantly been denied by their Christian -- even Catholic -- rivals in Syria, the Melchites, whether Catholic or Orthodox, the Syrian Orthodox, and the Catholic Syrians.
Apparently Maronites originated from the Syrian Orthodox Church and were separated and excommunicated in the 5th century because of their support of Monothelite doctrine (the Monothelite heresy did not exist in the 5th century.
Maronites (''Marun ye in Syriac, Mawarinah'' in Arabic) are members of one of the Eastern Rites of the Catholic church.

http://www.nationmaster.com/encyclopedia/Maronite-Catholic-Church (57 words)



December, 2005: The Syriac Orthodox Christian Digest

Supreme Head of the Universal Syriac Orthodox Church
On Saturday, November 19, 2005 St. Ignatius Jacobite Syrian Church of Dallas hosted the Southern Regional MGSOSA fall conference.
To round out our series on Syriac Christianity in East Asia, I thought I'd contribute a light-hearted article that will serve as a reminder for us as to why the legacy of antiquity is still important to us in our present age.

http://www.socdigest.org (455 words)



Syriac alphabet -- Encyclopædia Britannica

The Cyrillic alphabet is a writing system developed during the 10th century for Slavic-speaking people who belonged to the Eastern Orthodox church.
Includes information on medical experiments, crematoria, escape attempts, the use of Zyklon B in the gas chambers, and the perpetrators and victims of the camp's atrocities.
This kind of writing is called alphabetic, from the names alpha and beta—the first two letters in the Greek alphabet.

http://www.britannica.com/eb/article-9070771 (738 words)



ipedia.com: Syriac alphabet Article

The Syriac alphabet, used for writing the Syriac language, and sporadically also Malayalam (in the Malankara Orthodox Church) and Arabic (among Middle Eastern Christians, in a practice known as Garshuni), is an Aramaic alphabet.
The Syriac alphabet, used for writing the Syriac language, and sporadically also Malayalam and Arabic, is an Aramaic alphabet.
works which give detailed account, in alphabetical order, of whole field of human knowledge, or of some particular section in it.

http://www.ipedia.com/syriac_alphabet.html (137 words)



Test World Syriac

Syriac Language Course - Part of the Syrian Orthodox Church website.
Syriac and Assyrian Typefaces - Typefaces in.zip files of Issa and Giliana Classic, SPEdessa (Estrangelo) and Carlo Ator and Gabrial Ator.
Suryoyo World - The Syriac Alphabet - Shows differences between various forms of Syriac alphabets.

http://www.qmme.com/find/Test/World/Syriac (266 words)



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The Syriac Orthodox Church of Antioch: A brief overview
A computer generated concordance to the Syriac New Testament: According to the British and Foreign Bible Society's edition
Comparative Edition of the Syriac Gospels: Aligning the Old Syriac Sinaiticus, Curetonianus, Peshitta and Harklean Versions John DVDs

http://www.cinephiles.net/cgi-bin/store.php?ASIN=193195643X (266 words)



Frequently Asked Questions About the Oriental Orthodox Faith

Today the Oriental Orthodox faith is distinguished by their rites: The Syriac Orthodox Church of Antioch & Malankara Syrian Orthodox (the Syriac Orthodox Church in India), the Armenian Apostolic Church, the Coptic Orthodox Church of Alexandria, the Ethiopian Tawehedo Orthodox Church, and the Eritrean Orthodox Church.
The Syriac-Persian Church of the East (which left the Oriental Orthodox Church in 457 AD) however, still has several parishes which are active, and the Armenian Orthodox have parishes in Iran.
The Assyrian Orthodox Church is an older name (in the English language) for the Syriac Orthodox Church.

http://www.geocities.com/mfignatius/oo.html (266 words)



Orthodox Church - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

In contrast to the Syriac Orthodox Church (part of Oriental Orthodoxy), the Assyrian Church is part of neither Eastern nor Oriental Orthodoxy, having split from the rest of Christianity in the Nestorian Schism of 431 AD, under the accusation that its believers heretically divided Christ into two persons.
Oriental Orthodoxy, which includes the Coptic Church, of Egypt, the Syriac Orthodox Church, the Armenian Apostolic Church, the Ethiopian Orthodox Tewahedo Church, the Indian Orthodox Church and the Eritrean Orthodox Church.
A large number of Orthodox denominations, such as the Russian Orthodox Old-Rite Church, belong to the movement of Old Believers, which broke from the Russian Orthodox Church in the 17th century in a schism known as the Raskol.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Orthodox_church (523 words)



Eastern Orthodox Church - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Oriental Orthodox churches include the Coptic Church, the Ethiopian Orthodox Church, the Syriac Orthodox Church, the Malankara Orthodox Church, and the Armenian Church.
An example of this is the lack of communion between the Russian Orthodox Church Outside Russia and the Moscow Patriarchate (the Orthodox Church of Russia), the conflict arising early in the 20th century due to a serious distrust of the soviets.
Eastern Catholic Churches include the Armenian Catholic Church, the Chaldean Catholic Church, the Eparchy of Krizevci, the Italo-Albanian Catholic Church, the Maronite Church, the Romanian Catholic Church, the Ruthenian Catholic Church, the Syrian Catholic Church, the Syro-Malabar Catholic Church, the Syro-Malankara Catholic Church, and the Ukrainian Greek Catholic Church.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eastern_Orthodoxy (523 words)



Eastern Orthodox Church - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Oriental Orthodox churches include the Coptic Church, the Ethiopian Orthodox Church, the Syriac Orthodox Church, the Malankara Orthodox Church, and the Armenian Church.
An example of this is the lack of communion between the Russian Orthodox Church Outside Russia and the Moscow Patriarchate (the Orthodox Church of Russia), the conflict arising early in the 20th century due to a serious distrust of the soviets.
The Antiochian Orthodox Church, The Russian Orthodox Church Outside Russia, and the Holy Orthodox Catholic and Apostolic Church of America (formerly connected with the Vicar Bishop of the (Western) Orthodox Church of France-ECOF), all have Western Rite parishes.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Orthadox_Church (523 words)



Oriental Orthodox-Roman Catholic Theological Consultation - June 12, 2000

The Oriental Orthodox Churches represented are the Armenian Apostolic Church, the Coptic Orthodox Church, the Syriac Orthodox Church of Antioch, the Ethiopian Orthodox Tewahedo Church, and the Malankara Syrian Orthodox Church.
His Eminence Metropolitan Mor Cyril Aphrem Karim reported that his Holy Synod had decided in April to change the church's name in English from the "Syrian" to the "Syriac" Orthodox Church of Antioch.
This was followed by two presentations on inculturation: Chorbishop John Faris shared his paper on the Maronite Catholic Church in the United States, entitled Eastern Catholics in a Western World; and Subdeacon Edip Aydin of the Syriac Orthodox Church of Antioch read his paper, The Syriac Community in North America.

http://sor.cua.edu/Ecumenism/20000612OORCConsultation.html (523 words)



Eastern_Orthodox_Christianity

Oriental Orthodox churches include the Coptic Church, the Ethiopian Orthodox Church, the Syriac Orthodox Church, the Malankara Orthodox Church, and the Armenian Church.
An example of this is the lack of communion between the Russian Orthodox Church Outside Russia and the Moscow Patriarchate (the Orthodox Church of Russia), the conflict arising early in the 20th century due to a serious distrust of the soviets.
Alexandria, for example, traces its papacy back to Mark the Evangelist, who founded the church in Alexandria in AD (In Alexandria, two primates call themselves "Pope" and claim to be the successor of the apostle Mark: the Eastern Orthodox Patriarch of Alexandria, also called the "Pope of Africa", and the Coptic Pope.

http://www.tuxedo-shop.com/search.php?title=Eastern_Orthodox_Christianity (8826 words)



info: EASTERN ORTHODOX CHURCH

Oriental Orthodox churches include the Coptic Church, the Ethiopian Orthodox Church, the Syriac Orthodox Church, the Malankara Orthodox Church, and the Armenian Church.
An example of this is the lack of communion between the Russian Orthodox Church Outside Russia (ROCOR) and the Moscow Patriarchate (the Orthodox Church of Russia) dating from the 1920s and due to the subjection of the latter to the hostile soviet regime.
The Antiochian Orthodox Church, The Russian Orthodox Church Outside Russia, and the Holy Orthodox Catholic and Apostolic Church of America (formerly connected with the Vicar Bishop of the (Western) Orthodox Church of France-ECOF), all have Western Rite parishes.

http://www.info-macedonia.com/Eastern_Orthodox_Church (8826 words)