Born aroud the year 50 in Syria, Ignatius was an Apostolic Father of the Church, a disciple, with Saint Polycarp, of Saint John the Evangelist, and the third bishop of Antioch, the former See of ...

St Ignatius was the second bishop of Antioch, and successor to Bishop Euodius, Apostle of the Seventy (September 7). Tradition suggests that when St Ignatius was a little boy, the Savior hugged him ...

St. Ephraim of Syria, "Songs of Praise," c. 351 A.D. "There is One Physician who is possessed of both flesh and spirit....both of Mary and of God." St. Ignatius of Antioch, "Epistle To The ...

In a significant move, the leaders of Syria’s major Christian churches—including Patriarch John X of the Greek Orthodox Church of Antioch, Patriarch Ignatius Aphrem II of the Syriac Orthodox ...

in Antioch. The Universal Syrian Orthodox Church is led by the Patriarch, currently Ignatius Aphrem II, who is the 123rd Patriarch in direct succession from St Peter, the statement said.

Mor Ignatius Aphrem II, the Patriarch of Syriac Orthodox Church, led the special ceremony in St Mary's Syrian Orthodox Cathedral ... of the Church in his home state. The Oriental Syrian Orthodox ...

Malankara Metropolitan of the Jacobite Syrian Christian ... was led by the Patriarch of Antioch and head of the Syriac Orthodox Church Ignatius Aphrem II at the St Mary’s cathedral near Beirut ...

KOCHI: Keeping with the ancient traditions of the Syrian Orthodox Church, Malankara Metropolitan Joseph Mor Gregorios was anointed the Catholicos of the Jacobit ...

Patriarch John X of Antioch and All East has sent a letter to Patriarch Kirill of Moscow and All Russia, in which he thanked the Russian Orthodox Church for the assistance to the Syrian people ...