History of the Syriac Dioceses (Publications of the Archdiocese of the Syriac Orthodox Church)

"The History of Syrian Dioceses" by the late Patriarch Afram I of Antioch and all the East, is a synopsis of a much larger study still in manuscript form. This selected portion of this history, published for the first time in English translation with the original Arabic text, offers the reader an in-depth treatment of the conditions of the Syrian Orthodox Church, its leaders, and congregations in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries.

The History of Syriac Dioceses, by the late Patriarch Aphram I of Antioch and all the East, is a synopsis of a much larger study still in manuscript form. This selected portion of this history, published for the first time in English translation (volume 1) along with the original Arabic text (volume 2), offers the reader an in-depth treatment of the conditions of the Syrian Orthodox Church in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries.

CONTENTS TRANSLATOR’S INTRODUCTION 1. PATRIARCH IGNATIUS JIRJIS II (1687–1708) 2. PATRIARCH IGNATIUS ISHAQ (1709–1722) 3. PATRIARCH IGNATIUS SHUKR ALLAH (1723– 1745) 4. PATRIARCH IGNATIUS JIRJIS III (1745–1768) 5. PATRIARCH IGNATIUS JIRJIS IV (1768–1781) V. 1. English Translation -- V. 2. Arabic Text. Ignatius Aphram Barsoum ; Translated By Matti Moosa. Includes Bibliographical References.