The Syriac Catholic Church

Denomination·Founded 1782 CE·est. ~200,000 worldwide, with the Iraqi and Syrian communities much reduced since 2003 and 2011 and a growing diaspora in Sweden, the United States and Canada.

Judaism → Christianity → Catholicism → The Eastern Catholic Churches → The Syriac Catholic Church

The Syriac Catholic Patriarchate of Antioch

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Rites & Ritual

what its people do — and when Part of Practice →
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The Nineveh fast, and the Qurbono. Three days of strict fasting before Lent, kept with the East Syriac churches even though the rite is West Syriac, and then the year's Qurbono in the modes of the Beth Gazo. The Syriac Catholic Church is one of the few places where the two Syriac traditions' calendars overlap in practice. When Annual, three days before Lent, and weekly at the QurbonoWho The parish Go deeper — context →

Numbers count Panfaith activity only — never real-world adherence.

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