The West Syriac Rite, also called Syro-Antiochian Rite, is an Eastern Christian liturgical rite that employs the Divine Liturgy of Saint James in the West Syriac dialect. It is practised in the …

Listen to the audio version of this content. Click to enlarge. Syrian Rite, WEST.—The rite used by the Jacobite sect in Syria and by the Catholic Syrians is in its origin simply the old rite of …

Author: Catholic Encyclopedia. West Syrian Rite. The rite used by the Jacobite sect in Syria and by the Catholic Syrians is in its origin simply the old rite of Antioch in the Syriac language. Into …

West Syriac liturgical rites, also known as West Syrian, Jacobite, or Antiochene liturgical rites, are the liturgical rites practiced by churches following the West Syriac tradition of Syriac …

The West Syrian Rite is the rite used by many Oriental Orthodox and Eastern Rite Catholic churches. It is in its origin simply the old rite of Antioch in the Syriac language. Into this …

The West Syrian Rite is the rite used by certain Oriental Orthodox and Eastern Rite Catholic churches. It is in its origin simply the old rite of Antioch in the Syriac language . Into this …

Liturgical ritesThe West Syrian church has probably the richest and most diverse heritage in the matter of eucharistic anaphora and canonical offices. In addition to these are the rites of …

The Syriac Catholic Church. Just like the Maronite Catholics, Syriac Catholics recognize their first patriarch as St. Peter. As we’ve seen in past articles, the Council of Chalcedon in 451 was a …

How do the East/West Syriac Rite Catholic Churches differ? I've been interested in the East for awhile now, but most of my research has been about the Byzantine Rite. While there are a …

The West-Syrian Rite has also been used at intervals by sections of the (schismatical) Malabar Church. Namely, as the Malabar Christians at various times made approaches to the Jacobite …