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 [...]
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 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 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 [...]