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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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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Names & titlesIgnatius Michael III Jarweh
Domainthe union of 1782, and the refoundation at Sharfeh
Depicted asin West Syriac patriarchal vesture
Standingelected Syriac Orthodox patriarch in 1782, declared himself Catholic, was driven out, and re-established the line in Lebanon
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Attempts at union between the Syriac Orthodox church and Rome go back to Andrew Akijan, made patriarch with Ottoman and French support in 1662, whose line lapsed. Michael Jarweh was elected in 1782 by the Syriac Orthodox synod and announced his Catholic profession afterwards, which is why the church regards him as the founder of a continuous line rather than a new church. Forced out of Mardin, he settled at Sharfeh, and the see moved to Aleppo, then Mardin again, then Beirut in 1926 after the Anatolian communities were destroyed. All patriarchs take Ignatius as their first name, as do the Syriac Orthodox patriarchs, which regularly confuses outsiders.

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