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.

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The Syriac Catholic Patriarchate of Antioch

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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 Syriac Catholic Church is small — on the order of two hundred thousand people — and disproportionately significant in the Middle East's Christian institutions. It is one of two churches, with the Syriac Orthodox, that carry the West Syriac rite in Arabic-speaking countries, and its patriarch is a standing participant in the Middle East Council of Churches. Its seminary and library at Sharfeh in Lebanon hold an important Syriac manuscript collection. Parish clergy may be married in the eastern territories, following the Eastern Catholic norm, and the church elects its own patriarch subject to papal confirmation.

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