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His Holiness the Patriarch
ܡܪܢ ܡܪܝ ܐܝܓܢܐܛܝܘܣ
ܐܦܪܝܡ ܬܪܝܢܐ
ܕܒܝܬ ܟܪܝܡ
His Holiness Moran Mar Ignatius
Ephrem II Karim
Patriarch of Antioch and all the
East
Supreme Head
of The Universal Syriac Orthodox Church
Address:
Syriac Orthodox Patriarchate of Antioch
Bab Touma, P.O. Box 22260
Damascus, Syria
Born in Kamishly,
Syria on May 3, 1965, the youngest son of Mr. & Mrs. Issa Karim, His
Eminence Metropolitan Mor Cyril Aphrem Karim lost his father at an
early age and was raised ,with the rest of his family, by his late and
loving mother Khanema. He entered St. Ephrem's Theological Seminary in
Atchaneh, Lebanon in 1977, following his primary schooling in
Kamishly. In 1982, His Eminence served the Syriac Orthodox Archdiocese
of Aleppo, Syria, for the next two years. From 1984 to 1988,
Archbishop Karim pursued higher studies at the Coptic Theological
Seminary in Cairo, Egypt, graduating with a Bachelor Degree of
Divinity.
In 1985, Metropolitan Karim took the vows of a monk, and put himself
in the service of the Church. He was ordained to the diaconate in
Egypt, and later the same year, to the sacred priesthood in Kamishly.
From 1988 to 1989, Mor Cyril served as both, the secretary of His
Holiness, Moran Mor Zakka I Iwas, Syrian Orthodox Patriarch of Antioch
and all the East, and as a teacher at St. Ephrem's Theological
Seminary in Damascus, Syria. In 1991, His Eminence entered St.
Patrick's College in Maynooth, Ireland, where he received a License of
Sacred Theology Degree, in 1992, and his Doctor of Divinity Degree in
1994, following a defense of his doctoral thesis on The Symbolism of
the cross in early Syriac Christianity
On Sunday, January 28,
1996, His Eminence 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, at St. Mary 's
Syriac Orthodox Church in Kamishly. Archbishop Mor Cyril Aphrem Karim
arrived in The United States on March 2, 1996, and was officially
installed to his position at St. Mark's Cathedral in Teaneck, New
Jersey.
On March
21, 2014, His Holiness Patriarch Zakka I Iwas was called into his
heavenly abode. Subsequently, the Holy Synod elected His Eminence
Metropolitan Mor Cyril Aphrem Karim as the successor to the Holy
Throne and the supreme head of the universal Syrian orthodox church.
On May 29, 2014, in Damascus, Syria, His Eminence was consecrated as
the 123rd successor of St. Peter, with the name His
Holiness Patriarch Ignatius Aphrem II.
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