Metropolitan Mor Cyril Aphrem Karim Elected as the 123rd Patriarch of Antioch and All East
Prakash Varghese (OCP Delegate of UAE, Gulf and Levant Region)
OCP News Service – 31/3/14
Beirut: Several sources report that Archbishop Mor Cyril Aphrem Karim has been elected as the new Patriarch of the Syriac Orthodox Church of Antioch and All East. He will be the 123rd Patriarch in the Apostolic Lineage of St Peter.
The Holy Synod of the Syriac Orthodox Church which was held in Damascus on 31st March 2014, under the patronage of Catholicos Abune Basalios Thomas I and Archbishop Mor Severios Hawathe of Baghdad & Basra who is the Locum Tenens, elected the 123rd successor of St.Peter in the Apostolic See of Antioch who is the Supreme Head of the Universal Syriac Orthodox Church.
He was born in Kamishly, Syria on May 3, 1965, as the youngest son of Mr. & Mrs. Issa Karim.
On Sunday, January 28, 1996, he was consecrated as Metropolitan and Patriarchal Vicar to the Archdiocese of the Syriac Orthodox Church for the Eastern United States, by His Holiness Patriarch Zakka I Iwas.
Mor Cyril is currently serving as the Archbishop and Patriarchal Vicar of the Diocese of the Eastern United States of America.
Read Biography of Metropolitan Cyril here:
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