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Department of Syriac Studies

The pride of the Church is only in the abundance of books

About us

Who are We? As part of his comprehensive plan to create an organized structure for the Syriac Orthodox Patriarchate of Antioch, His Holiness, Mor Ignatius Aphrem II, officially established the Department of Syriac Studies, by a Patriarchal decree, number 1/2015, issued on January 6, 2015. His Holiness appointed (Raban) Mor Sewerios Dr. Roger Youssef Akhrass, director of the Department, and charged him to organize its divisions and follow up with the scientific and cultural issues overseen by the Patriarchate.

Our projects

Our projects - Digitization of the Patriarchal Manuscripts– Damascus; Manuscripts of Mor Matta Monastery, Iraq; St. Jacob of Serugh Monastery, Germany - Developing an electronic program for the Library and cataloguing almost twenty thousand books. - Digitization of important ancient Syriac Resources, and uploading them to the Department of Syriac Studies website.

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Our publications

Nahir Akçay, The Commentary on the Gospels by Bar Salibi vol. 3 Istanbul 2021, 477 pages.
Nahir Akçay, The Commentary on the Acts of the Apostles, the Pauline Epistles, the Catholic Epistles, and the Apocalypse by Bar Salibi vol. 2 Damascus, 2020, 608 pages.
Khalid Dinno, The Syrian Orthodox Christians in the Late Ottoman Period and Beyond: Crisis then Revival. New Jersey: 2019.
Dr. Sulayman AlSalama, Syriac Translators in the Abbasid Era 2019

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