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Ignatius Ephrem II Rahmani

Ignatius Ephrem II Rahmani

Ignatius Ephrem II Rahmani (1848–1929) was the Syriac Catholic Patriarch of Antioch from 1898 until his death. Born in Mosul, he became a leading church leader and Syriac scholar, known for his work on early Christian liturgy, history, and manuscripts. During his patriarchate, he guided the Syriac Catholic Church through World War I and the persecution of Christians in the Ottoman Empire, while also preserving and publishing important Syriac Christian texts.
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A letter from the Syriac Catholic patriarch

A letter from the Syriac Catholic patriarch

“A lovely conversation with our brothers and sons of our race (fellow countrymen), the beloved and humble Syriac Jacobites, in the form of a disputation between St. Aphrem the Teacher and his Aramean Nation, that is to say, the Syriac Nation.”