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unusual facts about Syrian Orthodox Church



Baselios Thomas I

The Catholicate office of Mor Baselios Thomas I functions at the Mor Ignatius Zakka I Centre in Puthencruz near Kochi, which is also the headquarters of the Syrian Orthodox Church in India.

Edessa

# Jacob Baradaeus, the real chief of the Syriac Miaphysites known after him as Jacobites


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Yaqu'b Mor Anthonios

On August 23, 2009 in a ceremony held at the St. Peter's & St. Paul's Cathedral in the Monastery of St. Aphrem the Syrian, Ma`rrat Sayyidnaya, Damascus, Ignatius Zakka I Iwas, the supreme head of the Universal Syrian Orthodox Church, ordained Yaq'ub Ramban from India Auxiliary Metropolitan, by name Mor Anthonios Yaqu'b, for the St. Antony's Mission in Honnavar under the Evangelical Association of the East, in the presence of many religious dignitaries and others.