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Sources for demography

I'm trying to collect as much as I can, we can delete unwanted ones at the end.

1.https://web.archive.org/web/20071217110633/http://sor.cua.edu/Patriarchate/index.html

2.https://web.archive.org/web/20071206222349/http://learning.lib.vt.edu/slav/relig_chr_mideast.html#syriacorthodox

The members of the church are spread out in the Iraq,{{Cite book |last=Joseph |first=John |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=lKaL3_dfFJAC&pg=PP13 |title=Muslim-Christian Relations and Inter-Christian Rivalries in the Middle East: The Case of the Jacobites in an Age of Transition |date=1984-06-01 |publisher=SUNY Press |isbn=978-0-87395-600-0 |language=en}} Turkey,{{Cite journal |last=Erol |first=Su |date=2015-09-01 |title=The Syriacs of Turkey |url=https://journals.openedition.org/assr/27027 |journal=Archives de sciences sociales des religions |volume=171 |language=en |issue=171 |pages=59–80 |doi=10.4000/assr.27027 |issn=0335-5985}} sweden,{{Cite web |date=2021-12-26 |title=Kungaparet tog emot Syrisk-ortodoxa kyrkans patriark - Sveriges Kungahus |url=https://www.kungahuset.se/kungafamiljen/aktuellahandelser/2015/aktuellt2015/kungaparettogemotsyriskortodoxakyrkanspatriark.5.6b3f01514d8a67974b11b.html |access-date=2025-03-02 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20211226192031/https://www.kungahuset.se/kungafamiljen/aktuellahandelser/2015/aktuellt2015/kungaparettogemotsyriskortodoxakyrkanspatriark.5.6b3f01514d8a67974b11b.html |archive-date=26 December 2021 }} gemany, Switzerland,{{Cite web |date=2015-02-21 |title=CNEWA - The Syrian Orthodox Church |url=http://www.cnewa.org/default.aspx?ID=8&pagetypeID=9&sitecode=HQ&pageno=1 |access-date=2025-03-02 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150221224244/http://www.cnewa.org/default.aspx?ID=8&pagetypeID=9&sitecode=HQ&pageno=1 |archive-date=21 February 2015 }} north america(US and Canada), south america, Australia.{{Cite web |date=2021-10-15 |title=Religious affiliation (RELP) {{!}} Australian Bureau of Statistics |url=https://www.abs.gov.au/census/guide-census-data/census-dictionary/2021/variables-topic/cultural-diversity/religious-affiliation-relp |access-date=2025-03-02 |website=www.abs.gov.au |language=en}} Murre-van den Berg, H. (2011). Syriac Orthodox Church. [https://web.archive.org/web/20250302060116/https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/pb-assets/assets/9780470670606/sample_G_Murre_van_den_Berg-1503412610000.pdf The encyclopedia of Christian civilization.]

https://archive.org/details/chailot-christine-syrian-orthodox-church-of-antioch-1998-2022-07-26-rabo/page/n33/mode/2up?view=theater ----- The best reference for the demography. Already present in the main article in a differant section.

The references for Sweden and Switzerland already there in the article, just reposition it.

https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.1002/9780470670606.wbecc1344 ----go to the 'References' section. There are a bunch of references, but unfortunately I cant access some of them to see whether they contain information. Can you try using the Wikipedia Library perhaps? I will try now.

From the above: https://archive.org/details/segal1970edessa01 and https://archive.org/details/chailot-christine-syrian-orthodox-church-of-antioch-1998-2022-07-26-rabo/mode/2up

Constitution: {{Cite web |date=2020-12-11 |title=Constitution of the Syriac Orthodox Church |url=https://www.malankara.com/constitution_of_Syriac_orthodox_church.html |access-date=2025-03-02 |website=www.malankara.com |language=en}}

https://dss-syriacpatriarchate.org/system-of-education/?lang=en --- Its blocked in my area.

Check this one:{{cite book |author1=Anthony O'Mahony |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=XzOMAgAAQBAJ&pg=PA18 |title=Eastern Christianity in the Modern Middle East |author2=Emma Loosley |date=16 December 2009 |publisher=Routledge |isbn=978-1-135-19371-3 |page=18}}

= [[Wikipedia:The Wikipedia Library|WP:TWL]] Sources =

Orthodox (Eastern Christian) Churches in the United States at the Beginning of a New Millennium: Questions of Nature, Identity, and Mission. By: Krindatch, Alexei D., Journal for the Scientific Study of Religion, 00218294, September 2002, Vol. 41, Issue 3

Syrian Orthodox Church of Antioch (SyrAnt)

      Part of the Syrian Orthodox Church of Antioch

      Damascus, Syria

      250,000 plus 1,000,000 in India who belong to Mlnk-Syr

List

Things to fix in the Syriac Orthodox Church article:

  • Deacons - Explain a little bit about each rank.
  • Jurisdiction of the patriarchate - It needs a rewrite for clarity.
  • Last paragraph of the Patriarchate of Antioch in the History section needs more citations. Only 3-4 are present currently.

Dioceses

== '''Central America''' ==

In Guatemala, a Charismatic movement emerged in 2003 and was excommunicated in 2006 by the Roman Catholic Church. They later joined the Syriac Orthodox Church in 2013. Members of this archdiocese are Mayan in origin and live in rural areas, and display charismatic-type practices.{{cite journal |last1=Hager |first1=Anna |title=The emergence of a Syriac Orthodox Mayan Church in Guatemala |journal=International Journal of Latin American Religions |volume=3 |issue=2 |pages=370–389 |date=3 July 2019 |doi=10.1007/s41603-019-00083-1 |s2cid=198838809 |issn=2509-9965}}{{cite web |title=NOTICIAS DE MARZO 2012 |url=http://www.icergua.org/latam/noticias/13/03.html#9 |website=www.icergua.org |access-date=7 April 2019 |archive-date=17 April 2019 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190417043600/http://www.icergua.org/latam/noticias/13/03.html#9 |url-status=live }}{{cite web |title=Orthodoxy in Guatemala |url=https://orthodox-institute.org/guatemala.html |website=orthodox-institute.org |access-date=7 April 2019 |archive-date=7 April 2019 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190407090147/https://orthodox-institute.org/guatemala.html |url-status=live }}{{cite web |title=Yacoub Eduardo Aguirre Oestmann – Names – Orthodoxia |url=http://www.orthodoxia.ch/en/name/1317/show |website=www.orthodoxia.ch |access-date=7 April 2019 |archive-date=7 April 2019 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190407090152/http://www.orthodoxia.ch/en/name/1317/show |url-status=live }}

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Central America

|Archdiocese of Mexico, Venezuela, Central America and the Islands of the Caribbean Sea

|H. E Ignatius Samaán{{Cite web |title=Mexico, Venezuela, Central America and the Islands of the Caribbean Sea |url=https://www.antiochpatriarchate.org/en/category/mexico-venezuela-central-america-and-the-islands-of-the-caribbean-sea/85/ |archive-url=http://web.archive.org/web/20241007104048/https://www.antiochpatriarchate.org/en/category/mexico-venezuela-central-america-and-the-islands-of-the-caribbean-sea/85/ |archive-date=2024-10-07 |access-date=2025-02-13 |website=Antioch}}

= Middle East =

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rowspan="3" |Iraq

|Archdiocese of Baghdad and Basra{{Cite web |date=2020-12-11 |title=Constitution of the Syriac Orthodox Church |url=https://www.malankara.com/constitution_of_Syriac_orthodox_church.html |access-date=2025-03-02 |website=www.malankara.com |language=en}}

|H. E Severius Hawa{{Cite web |date=2020-11-25 |title=Meeting with the Clergy of the Archdiocese of Baghdad and Basra |url=https://www.malankara.com/meeting-clergy-archdiocese-baghdad-and-basra |access-date=2025-03-02 |website=www.malankara.com |language=en}}

Archdiocese of Mar Matta

|H. E Timotheos Mousa A. Shamani{{Cite web |title=Mor Dioscoros Luke Shaya |url=https://soc-wus.org/ourchurch/Archd%20Mar%20Matta.htm |access-date=2025-03-02 |website=soc-wus.org}}

Archdiocese of Mosul and Environs

|H. E Nicodemus Daoud Sharaf{{Cite web |title=His Eminence Mor Nicodemus Daoud Sharaf paid a brotherly visit to our beloved Archdiocese – Syriac Orthodox Church of Antioch |url=https://syrianorthodoxchurch.org/2021/10/his-eminence-mor-nicodemus-daoud-sharaf-paid-a-brotherly-visit-to-our-beloved-archdiocese/ |access-date=2025-03-02 |website=syrianorthodoxchurch.org}}{{Cite web |date=2011-12-06 |title=New Metropolitan for Mosul Archdiocese, Iraq |url=https://en.ankawa.com/new-metropolitan-for-mosul-archdiocese-iraq/ |access-date=2025-03-02 |website=en.ankawa.com |language=en-US}}

Jerusalem and Jordan

|Patriarchal Vicariate of Jerusalem and Jordan

|H. E Raban Gabriel Dahho{{cite news |date=10 April 2019 |title=Consecration of Archbishop Patriarchal Vicar for Jerusalem |url=https://malankara.com/node/3607 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190412150446/https://malankara.com/node/3607 |archive-date=12 April 2019 |access-date=22 June 2019 |publisher=Malankara Archdiocese of the Syriac Church in North America}}

rowspan="3" |Lebanon

|Archdiocese of Beruit

|H. E Clemis Daniel Malak Kourieh{{Cite web |title=Middle East – Syriac Orthodox Church of Antioch |url=https://syrianorthodoxchurch.org/directories/world/middle-east/ |access-date=2025-03-09 |website=syrianorthodoxchurch.org}}

Archdiocese of Mount Lebanon

|H.E Theophilus Georges Saliba{{Cite web |date=2023-03-31 |title=Honoring His Eminence Mor Theophilus George Saliba |url=https://syriacpatriarchate.org/2023/03/honoring-his-eminence-mor-theophilus-george-saliba/ |access-date=2025-03-09 |website=Syrian Orthodox Patriarchate of Antioch |language=en-US}}

Patriarchal Vicariate of Zahle

|H. E Justinos Boulos Safar

rowspan="3" |Syria

|Archdiocese of Aleppo

|Gregorios Yohanna Ibrahim{{Cite web |last=CNA |title=Archbishop Ibrahim - Latest news |url=https://www.catholicnewsagency.com/tags/2565/archbishop-ibrahim |access-date=2025-03-09 |website=Catholic News Agency |language=en}}

Archdiocese of Homs & Hama

|Timotheos Matta Al-Khoury{{Cite web |date=2021-03-16 |title=Visit of Mor Timotheos Matta Al-Khoury and a Delegation of Clergy |url=https://www.malankara.com/visit-mor-timotheos-matta-al-khoury-and-delegation-clergy |access-date=2025-03-09 |website=www.malankara.com |language=en}}

Archdiocese of Jazireh & Euphrates

|Maurice Amsih{{Cite web |last=SyriacPress |date=2024-11-05 |title=Syriac Orthodox Archbishop Mor Maurice Amsih leads Mass and ordains deacons in celebration at Mor Dudu Church in Dayrik, North and East Syria |url=https://syriacpress.com/blog/2024/11/05/syriac-orthodox-archbishop-mor-maurice-amsih-leads-mass-and-ordains-deacons-in-celebration-at-mor-dudu-church-in-dayrik-north-and-east-syria/ |access-date=2025-03-09 |website=Syriac Press |language=en-US}}

rowspan="4" |Turkey

|Patriarchal Vicariate of Istanbul & Ankara

|Filüksinos Yusuf Çetin{{Cite web |title=Message of Cardinal Koch to Metropolitan Filüksinos Yusuf Çetin |url=https://www.christianunity.va/content/unitacristiani/en/cardinal-koch/2023/saluts--messages--autres/lettre-du-cardinal-koch-a-l-eveque-rowan-williams1.html |access-date=2025-03-09 |website=www.christianunity.va}}

Archdiocese of Mardin

|Filüksinos Saliba Özmen{{Cite web |title=Mor Filüksinos Saliba Özmen |url=https://soc-wus.org/ourchurch/Archd%20Mardin.htm |access-date=2025-03-09 |website=soc-wus.org}}

Archdiocese of Turabdin

| Timotheus Samuel Aktaş{{Cite web |last=SyriacPress |date=2021-10-30 |title=The Monastery of My Horizons |url=https://syriacpress.com/blog/2021/10/30/the-monastery-of-my-horizons/ |access-date=2025-03-09 |website=Syriac Press |language=en-US}}

Patriarchal Vicariate of Adiyaman

| Gregorius Melki Ürek{{Cite web |title=World Council of Arameans [Syriacs] - Turkey, EU and the Arameans of Southeast Turkey - 28th March 2012 EP, Brussels |url=https://wca-ngo.org/our-work/2012-08-20-09-59-62/304-turkey-eu-and-the-arameans-of-southeast-turkey-28th-march-2012-ep-brussels |access-date=2025-03-09 |website=wca-ngo.org}}

Arabian Gulf and Emirates

|Patriarchal Vicariate of Arabian Gulf

|Barthelmaus Nathanael Youssef{{Cite web |title=His Holiness Patriarch Mor Ignatius Aphrem II Participates in the Global Faith Leaders Summit Held at the Abu Dhabi Energy Conference Center in Abu Dhabi |url=https://www.mecc.org/news-en/2023/11/8/-1-smpez |access-date=2025-03-09 |website=The Middle East Council of Churches |language=en-US}}

File:A church in the city of Bethlehem-Palestine.jpg]]The Syriac Orthodox Church in the Middle East and the diaspora numbering between 150,000 and 200,000 people reside in their indigenous area of habitation in Syria, Iraq, and Turkey according to estimations.{{cite web |title=Kiliseler – Manastırlar |url=https://mardin.ktb.gov.tr/TR-56510/kiliseler---manastirlar.html |website=mardin.ktb.gov.tr |access-date=23 October 2019 |archive-date=23 October 2019 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20191023095514/https://mardin.ktb.gov.tr/TR-56510/kiliseler---manastirlar.html |url-status=live }} The community formed and developed in the Middle Ages. The Syriac Orthodox Christians of the Middle East speak Aramaic.

= India =

== '''Jacobite Syrian Christian Church''' ==

{{Main|Jacobite Syrian Christian Church}}

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The Jacobite Syrian Christian Church, one of the Saint Thomas Christian churches in India, is an integral part of the Syriac Orthodox Church, with the Patriarch of Antioch as its supreme head. The local head of the church in Malankara (Kerala) was the late Baselios Thomas I, ordained by Patriarch Ignatius Zakka I Iwas. The headquarters of the church in India is at Puthencruz, Ernakulam, Kerala in South India. Simhasana Churches and the Honavar Mission are under the direct control of Patriarch. Historically, the St. Thomas Christians were part of the Church of the East, based in Persia which was under the Patriarch of Antioch. After the Council of Seleucia-Ctesiphon(410 AD.), they were reunited with Syriac Orthodox Patriarchs of Antioch {{circa}} 1652.{{sfn | Curta | Holt | 2016 | p=336}} Syriac monks Mar Sabor and Mar Proth arrived at Malankara between the eighth and ninth centuries from Persia.{{cite book |title=Journal of Kerala Studies |date=2010 |publisher=University of Kerala. |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=PzvI1bCIbwIC&q=Mar+Sabor+and+Mar+Proth |access-date=17 September 2020 |archive-date=18 October 2023 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20231018164658/https://books.google.com/books?id=PzvI1bCIbwIC&q=Mar+Sabor+and+Mar+Proth |url-status=live }} They established churches in Quilon, Kadamattom, Kayamkulam, Udayamperoor, and Akaparambu.{{cite book |last1=Congress |first1=Indian History |title=Proceedings |date=1959 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=6XVCAAAAYAAJ&q=Mar+Sabor+and+Mar+Proth |access-date=17 September 2020 |archive-date=18 October 2023 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20231018164659/https://books.google.com/books?id=6XVCAAAAYAAJ&q=Mar+Sabor+and+Mar+Proth |url-status=live }}

The Malankara Marthoma Syrian Church is an independent reformed church under the jurisdiction of Marthoma Metropolitan and its first Reforming Metropolitan Mathews Athanasius was ordained by Ignatius Elias II in 1842.{{sfn | Neill | 2002 | pp=251–252 }} Maphrianate was re-established in Malankara in 1912 by Ignatius Abded Mshiho II by the consecration of Paulose I as first Catholicos. Malankara Orthodox Syrian Church accepts the Patriarch of Antioch only as its spiritual Father as stated by the constitution of 1934.{{cite web|title=The Constitution of the Malankara Orthodox Church|url=https://mosc.in/administration/administration|website=mosc.in|access-date=24 October 2019|archive-date=11 April 2019|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190411155945/http://mosc.in/administration/administration|url-status=live}}

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== '''Knanaya Archdiocese''' ==

The Knanaya Syriac Orthodox Church is an archdiocese under the guidance and direction of H. E Severious Kuriakose with the patriarch as its spiritual head. They are the followers of the Syrian merchant Knāy Thoma (Thomas of Cana) who arrived in Kerala in the year 345 AD,{{Cite web |title=Post St. Thomas arrivals - History of Christianity in Kerala {{!}} Kerala Tourism |url=https://www.keralatourism.org/christianity/pantaenus-knai-thoma/8#:~:text=Knai%20Thoma%20reached%20Kerala%20under,22%20kilometers%20south%20of%20Baghdad. |access-date=2025-02-02 |website=Christianity |language=en}} while another legend traces their origin to Jews in the Middle East.{{sfn| Swiderski | 1988a | p=83}}{{sfn | Whitehouse | 1873 | p=125}}{{cite web |title=Valiapally, St. Mary's Knanaya Church, Pilgrim Centre, Kottayam, Kerala, India Kerala Tourism |url=https://www.keralatourism.org/kumarakom/valiapally-kottayam.php |website=www.keralatourism.org |access-date=7 April 2019 |archive-date=7 April 2019 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190407154723/https://www.keralatourism.org/kumarakom/valiapally-kottayam.php |url-status=live }}

== '''Evangelistic Association of the East''' ==

{{Main|Evangelistic Association Of The East}}

File:EAE HeadOffice.jpg.]]E.A.E Arch Diocese is the missionary association of the Syriac Orthodox Church founded in 1924 by Geevarghese Athunkal Cor-Episcopa at Perumbavoor.{{cite book |last1=Thomas |first1=Anthony Korah |title=The Christians of Kerala: A Brief Profile of All Major Churches |date=1993 |publisher=A.K. Thomas |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=39LYAAAAMAAJ&q=Perumbavoor+suvishesha+samajam |access-date=16 August 2019 |archive-date=18 October 2023 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20231018165033/https://books.google.com/books?id=39LYAAAAMAAJ&q=Perumbavoor+suvishesha+samajam |url-status=live }} This archdiocese is under the direct control of the patriarch under the guidance of Chrysostomos Markose, It is an organization with churches, educational institutions, orphanages, old age homes, convents, publications, mission centers, gospel teams, care missions, and a missionary training institute. It is registered in 1949 under the Indian Societies Registration Act. XXI of 1860 (Reg. No. S.8/1949ESTD 1924).{{cite web|url=http://www.mca.gov.in/MinistryV2/societiesregistrationact.html|title=Ministry Of Corporate Affairs – societiesregistrationact|website=www.mca.gov.in|access-date=7 April 2019|archive-date=6 April 2019|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190406113737/http://www.mca.gov.in/MinistryV2/societiesregistrationact.html|url-status=live}}{{cite news |title=പൗരസ്ത്യ സുവിശേഷ സമാജം ജനറൽ കൺവൻഷൻ തുടങ്ങി |url=https://localnews.manoramaonline.com/ernakulam/local-news/2017/11/16/em-convention.html |work=ManoramaOnline |access-date=7 April 2019 |archive-date=7 April 2019 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190407152129/https://localnews.manoramaonline.com/ernakulam/local-news/2017/11/16/em-convention.html |url-status=live }}

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= '''Europe''' =

Earlier in the 20th century many Syrian Orthodox immigrated to Western Europe, located in the Netherlands, Germany, Sweden, Switzerland and other countries for economic and political reasons.{{cite book |last1=Mayer |first1=Dr Jean-François |last2=Hämmerli |first2=Ms Maria |title=Orthodox Identities in Western Europe: Migration, Settlement and Innovation |date=2014 |publisher=Ashgate Publishing, Ltd. |isbn=978-1-4724-3931-4 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=y9oRBAAAQBAJ&q=Syrian+immigrated+to+Western+Europe |access-date=24 October 2020 |archive-date=18 October 2023 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20231018165115/https://books.google.com/books?id=y9oRBAAAQBAJ&q=Syrian+immigrated+to+Western+Europe#v=onepage&q=Syrian%20immigrated%20to%20Western%20Europe&f=false |url-status=live }}{{sfn|Atto|2011|p=}} Dayro d-Mor Ephrem in the Netherlands is the first Syriac Orthodox monastery in Europe established in 1981.{{sfn | Brock | Kiraz | Gorgias Press | Butts | 2011 | p=}} Dayro d-Mor Awgen, Arth, Switzerland and Dayro d-Mor Ya`qub d-Sarug, Warburg, Germany are the other monasteries located in Europe.

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Belgium

|Patriarchal Vicariate of Belgium, France and Luxembourg

|Archbishop George Kourieh{{Cite web |date=2025-02-05 |title=Ecumenical Patriarch Received Bishop George Kourieh of Belgium, France, and Luxembourg |url=https://ocpsociety.org/ecumenical-patriarch-received-bishop-george-kourieh-of-belgium-france-and-luxembourg/ |access-date=2025-03-09 |website=Orthodoxy Cognate PAGE |language=en-US}}

rowspan="2" |Germany

|Patriarchal Vicariate of Germany

|Archbishop Philoxenus Mattias Nayis{{Cite web |last=Khabayan |first=Wahagen |title=STSS Team |url=https://syriacsalzburg.eu/stss-team-syriac-theological-seminary-salzburg/ |access-date=2025-03-09 |website=Syriac Salzburg |language=en-US}}

Ecumenical Movement in Germany

|Archbishop Julius Hanna Aydın{{Cite web |date=2024-12-04 |title=Meeting with the Eminences and Archbishops of the Syriac Orthodox Archdioceses in Europe |url=https://syriacpatriarchate.org/2024/12/meeting-with-the-eminences-and-archbishops-of-the-syriac-orthodox-archdioceses-in-europe/ |access-date=2025-03-09 |website=Syrian Orthodox Patriarchate of Antioch |language=en-US}}

Netherlands

|Patriarchal Vicariate of the Netherlands

|Archbishop Polycarpus Augin (Eugene) Aydın

Spain

|Patriarchal Vicariate of Spain

|Archbishop Nicolaos Matti Abd Alahad

rowspan="2" |Sweden

|Archbishopric of Sweden and Scandinavia

|Archbishop Yuhanon Lahdo{{Cite web |last=Orthodox Times |title=Metropolitan of Sweden attended ordination of Yohanoun Lahdo {{!}} Orthodox Times (en) |url=https://orthodoxtimes.com/metropolitan-of-sweden-attended-ordination-of-yohanoun-lahdo/ |access-date=2025-03-09 |website= |language=en-US}}

Patriarchal Vicariate of Sweden

|Archbishop Dioskoros Benyamen Atas{{Cite web |last=SyriacPress |date=2022-03-21 |title=SWEDEN: Syriac Orthodox bishop Benjamin Ataş ordains subdeacons and readers |url=https://syriacpress.com/blog/2022/03/21/sweden-syriac-orthodox-bishop-benjamin-atas-ordains-subdeacons-and-readers-2/ |access-date=2025-03-09 |website=Syriac Press |language=en-US}}

Switzerland

|Patriarchal Vicariate of Switzerland and Austria

|Archbishop Dionysius Isa Gürbüz{{Cite web |title=Europe – Syriac Orthodox Church of Antioch |url=https://syrianorthodoxchurch.org/directories/world/europe/ |access-date=2025-03-09 |website=syrianorthodoxchurch.org}}

United Kingdom

|Patriarchal Vicariate of United Kingdom

|Archbishop Athanasius Toma Dawod{{Cite web |title=Protests grow at Syrian archbishops' visa refusals |url=https://www.churchtimes.co.uk/articles/2016/16-december/news/uk/protests-grow-at-syrian-archbishops-visa-refusals |access-date=2025-03-09 |website=www.churchtimes.co.uk}}

Favoriten (Wien) - Syrisch-Orthodoxe Kirche.JPG|St. Ephrem Church Vienna, Austria

St Saviour, Old Oak Road. London W3 - geograph.org.uk - 1716657.jpg|St. Thomas Cathedral, Acton, London, England

Syrisch-orthodoxes Kloster, ehemaliges Dominikanerkloster.JPG|St. Jacob of Sarug Monastery Warburg, Germany

Moeder Godskerk-buitenkant.JPG|Church of Our Lady, Amsterdam, Netherlands

Arth Klosterstr 10.JPG|St. Avgin Monastery, Arth, Switzerland

Sankt Afrems katedral i Södertälje.jpg|St. Aphrem Cathedral, Södertälje, Sweden

= Oceania =

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Oceania

|Patriarchal Vicariate of Australia and New Zealand

|H. E Malatius Malki Malki{{Cite web |title=Australia & New Zealand – Syriac Orthodox Church of Antioch |url=https://syrianorthodoxchurch.org/directories/world/australia-new-zealand/ |access-date=2025-03-09 |website=syrianorthodoxchurch.org}}{{Cite web |title=Mor Militius Malki Malki |url=http://soc-wus.org/ourchurch/Pat_V_Australia.htm |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20211028120135/http://soc-wus.org/ourchurch/Pat_V_Australia.htm |archive-date=28 October 2021 |access-date=2021-10-26 |website=soc-wus.org}}

The vicariate is headquartered in the Saint Ephraim Syrian Orthodox Church.{{Cite web |title=Australia & New Zealand – Syriac Orthodox Church of Antioch |url=https://syrianorthodoxchurch.org/directories/world/australia-new-zealand/ |access-date=2025-02-07 |website=syrianorthodoxchurch.org}}

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Ref for Diaconate

Footnote on pages 84-85:

There are four ranks of deacons in the Syrian Orthodox Church (rather, four stages to reach the full title of a deacon): cantor or singer (mzamrono), lector (qoruyo), subdeacon (afudyaqno), evangelical deacon (mshamshono or shamosho). Each parish appoints one of the senior deacons as archdeacon (arkhedyaqno). Tahhan and Qamar hold the most senior rank of evangelical deacon (shamosho ewangelio), who normally has the authority of spiritual teaching. Tahhan was also archdeacon of the archdiocese. The archdeacon ranks immediately after the priest, but is also seen as “the right hand of the bishop” (Syrian Orthodox Resources: sor.cua.edu/intro). Only deacons with exceptional knowledge obtain this office.

Ramban sources

1.https://www.thehindu.com/news/national/kerala/seven-priests-of-jacobite-church-professed-as-rambans/article67825490.ece

2.https://archive.org/details/orthodoxsyrianch0000kada/page/86/mode/2up?q=monk

3.https://www.google.co.in/books/edition/Annual_Review_of_the_Sociology_of_Religi/9yqeBQAAQBAJ?hl=en

---I believe this book has a lot of information on the aspects of the church. Not just about monks.

The Ramban(monk) is a monastic order in the Church. The monk is admitted to the Holy Order by the Superior of the monastery or a bishop.

{{Cite book |last=Kuriakose Corepiscopa Moolayil |url=https://archive.org/details/guidetoaltarassi0000kuri_z6e2/page/14/mode/1up |title=A Guide to the Altar Assistants with Syriac Orthodox Lectionary Notes |date=2011 |others=Beth Mardutho: The Syriac Institute |pages=14–15}}

References

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