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

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Core tenet of The Syriac Catholic Church

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.

Understanding it — context, not catechism: how this passage is held

The Sayfo of 1915 killed Syriac Catholics along with Syriac Orthodox, Chaldeans and Assyrians; the church's Anatolian dioceses effectively ceased to exist and the survivors regrouped in Syria, Lebanon and Iraq. The twentieth-century recovery in Iraq was then undone between 2003 and 2014. The 2010 cathedral attack, the 2014 flight from Qaraqosh — a town where the Syriac Catholic Church was the majority — and the destruction of churches in Mosul are all inside living memory for the congregation. The church has raised causes for the 2010 victims and treats the date as a memorial regardless of the canonical outcome.

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