The Council discussed the development of the conflict between the Church of Antioch and the Patriarchate of Jerusalem: "On March 4, 2013, the Patriarchate of Jerusalem elected Archimandrite Makarios ...

founded Antioch on the mouth of the Orontes River, about 300 miles north of Jerusalem and 20 miles inland from the Mediterranean. From that Macedonian beginning, Antioch passed into the domain of ...

the Madaba Map is both a masterpiece of Byzantine design and a working map of Jerusalem and the sixth-century Middle East. A detail of the Madaba Map reveals how its makers imagined the world from ...