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Ignatius Michael III Jarweh.
Elected Syriac Orthodox patriarch in 1782, he declared his communion with Rome almost immediately, was repudiated by his own synod, and fled to Lebanon, where he refounded the line at the monastery of Our Lady at Sharfeh. Every Syriac Catholic patriarch since has taken the name Ignatius. The union he made had been attempted intermittently since 1662 and had never held.
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The shared center — held across the tradition
The same rite, in Roman communion.
The Syriac Catholic Church prays the Anaphora of Saint James in Syriac and Arabic, keeps the West Syriac calendar and the Shhimo hours, and holds Catholic doctrine including papal primacy. Its patriarch bears the same title as the Syriac Orthodox patriarch — of Antioch and All the East — and resides in Beirut.
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The martyr list is not closed.
The church counts 1915 among its founding catastrophes and does not treat martyrdom as a historical category. Its Baghdad cathedral was stormed during Sunday evening Mass in 2010; its people were driven out of Mosul and the Nineveh plain in 2014. The commemorations are annual and the names are recent.
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Cosmos & Afterlife
how reality is built, and what follows deathThe nature of reality
The Syriac account of creation, held in the Catholic communion.
After death
Resurrection and judgment; Catholic teaching, with the Syriac commemorations of the dead.