Mar Mattai — Saint Mattai (Matthew) Born Amid, Turkey Died 4th century Mount Alfaf, Iraq Honored in Syriac Christianity Major shrine Monastery of Mar Mattai, Iraq … Wikipedia
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Mar Mattai Monastery — Mar Matti Monastery (Syriac: ܕܝܪܐ ܕܡܪܝ ܡܬܝ Saint Matthew s Monastery,Arabic,دير مار متي) is located atop Mount Maqloub in northern Iraq. About 20 kilometers from Mosul, Mar Matti was founded in AD 363 by a Syrian Christian called Matti (Syriac… … Wikipedia
Bartella — (Assyrian: ܒܪܬܠܐ,Arabic,برطلّة) is an Iraqi Assyrian town located less than 13 miles east of Mosul, Iraq. The name Bartella is of Aramaic origin, but its meaning is not fully agreed on by the historians. While Joseph Ghanima and al Jawaliqy… … Wikipedia
Denha II — was patriarch of the Church of the East from 1336/7 to 1381/2. Although no history of his reign has survived, references in a number of Nestorian, Jacobite and Moslem sources provide some details of his patriarchate. Contents 1 Order of… … Wikipedia
Dioceses of the Syriac Orthodox Church — Deir Zaʿfaran, the saffron monastery , seat of the Syrian Orthodox patriarchs after the First World War In the period of its greatest expansion, in the tenth century, the Syrian Orthodox Church had around 20 metropolitan dioceses and a little… … Wikipedia
Mount Alfaf — Mount Mqalub … Wikipedia
Maphrian — The Maphrian (Syriac: ܡܦܪܝܢܐ Maphryānā, also rendered as mafriano, etc.) was historically the prelate in the Syriac Orthodox Church who ranked second in the hierarchy after the Syriac Orthodox Patriarch of Antioch. The Maphrian, whose title… … Wikipedia
Maphrian — • The Syriac word mafriano signifies one who fructifies, a consecrator. It is used to designate the prelate who holds the second rank after the patriarch among the Jacobite Syrians Catholic Encyclopedia. Kevin Knight. 2006. Maphrian Ma … Catholic encyclopedia
Saint Behnam — Died c. 350 A.D. Nimrud, Iraq Honored in Syriac Christianity Major shrine Monastery of Mar Behnam and Mart Sara, Nimrud, Iraq Feast … Wikipedia
