The Word Magazine September, 1979 Page 10-11 IGNATIUS HAZIM ELECTED PATRIARCH OF ANTIOCH On Monday, July 2, 1979, the Holy Synod of the Greek Orthodox Patriarchate of Antioch and All the East convened in Damascus, Syria, to elect a successor to His Beatitude Patriarch ELIAS IV who suffered a fatal heart attack on June 21. [...]
The Word Magazine November 1985 Page 3-4 Final Address of His Beatitude, Patriarch Ignatius IV 1985 Archdiocese Convention Thank you Saidna, thank all of you. I was told that I have to speak with a louder voice, in spite of the fact that I am "scared" this morning. With so impressive an assembly, with such [...]
Word Magazine May 1985 Page 5-6 SELECTIONS FROM THE WRITINGS OF THE MOST BLESSED IGNATIUS IV PATRIARCH OF ANTIOCH AND ALL THE EAST “BEHOLD, I MAKE ALL THINGS NEW” It is a remarkable fact that the phrase, “Behold, I make all things new” (Rev. 21:5), is the only one in the Book of Revelation that [...]
The Word Magazine March, 1985 Page 4 SELECTIONS FROM THE WRITINGS OF THE MOST BLESSED IGNATIUS IV PATRIARCH OF ANTIOCH AND ALL THE EAST This coming summer our Father-in Christ, His Beatitude IGNATIUS IV will make his first archpastoral visit to the Archdiocese of North America since his accession to the patriarchal throne in 1979. [...]
Word Magazine January 1996 Page 4 -6 ANTIOCH REVISITED BY ARCHPRIEST JOSEPH ANTYPAS On Thursday, October 12, 1995, His Eminence Metropolitan PHILIP (Saliba), Primate of the Antiochian Orthodox Christian Archdiocese of North America, arrived at Beirut International Airport, accompanied by Mr. Ernest Saykaly, the Vice Chairman of the Archdiocesan Board of Trustees, Mr. Nicola Antakli, [...]
The Word Magazine February 1985 Page 4-6 ANTIOCH AND ITS PATRIARCHATE by Archpriest Stephen Upson The city of Antioch was founded three hundred years before the birth of Christ by Seleucus, one of the princely successors of Alexander the Great, and named after his father Antiochus. Located near the mouth of the Orontes River in [...]
The Word Magazine September, 1981 Page 6-7 ~The Patriarchate of Antioch~ Patriarch Ignatius IV Patriarch Ignatius IV of Antioch. Member of the WCC's Central Committee, and Moderator of the Sub-unit on Renewal and Congregational Life. To understand our situation, it may help to know a little about the history of the Middle East from which [...]
The Word Magazine April 1985 Page 5 SELECTIONS FROM THE WRITINGS OF THE MOST BLESSED IGNATIUS IV PATRIARCH OF ANTIOCH AND ALL THE EAST AN APPEAL TO THE LEBANESE PEOPLE I was stunned by the tremendous exodus of people and by the events of massacres that have brought us back to a period we thought [...]
The Word Magazine March 1991 Page 7-8 A Decade of Construction and Modernization at the Patriarchate of Antioch by Archbishop Michael (Shaheen) Damascus, which historians acknowledge as the oldest inhabited city in the world, is where His Sacred Beatitude, IGNATIUS IV, resides. On a recent visit last August, I was immensely impressed and somewhat gratified [...]
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