The Church of Antioch was the first of the five major churches of what later became the pentarchy in Christianity, with its primary seat in the ancient Greek city of Antioch.
Church of Saint Peter, Antioch
The Syriac Orthodox Church, also informally known as the Jacobite Church, is an Oriental Orthodox church that traces back to the ancient Church of Antioch. The church currently has around 1.5 million
Church of Antioch
…means "Eastern Romans" or "Byzantines" in Turkish, Persian and Arabic. The term Rūm is preferred to Yūnāniyyūn, which means "Greek" or "Ionian". The Syriac Orthodox Patriarchate of Antioch and All the East descends from the Antiochian Christians who rejected the Chalcedon and followed Patriarch Severus of Antioch, establishing a patriarchal line that…
Cathedral of Saint George, Damascus, Syria
A Syriac Orthodox icon of Jesus Christ, Saint Peter, and Saint Paul.
Syriac Orthodox Chapel of Saints Joseph of Arimathea and Nicodemus, Church of the Holy Sepulchre, Jerusalem
Mor Hananyo Monastery was the headquarters of the Syriac Orthodox Church of Antioch until 1932.