Synod of Jacobite Church approves steps to canonise Patriarch Ignatius Peter III

The Jacobite Syrian Church's Episcopal Synod has approved steps to canonise Patriarch Ignatius Peter III, who convened the historic Mulanthuruthy Synod in 1876. This decision was made at a meeting chaired by Patriarch Ignatius Aphrem II, during the 150th anniversary celebrations of the Mulanthuruthy Synod, at the Marthoman Cathedral in Mulanthuruthy. Patriarch Ignatius Peter III, who hailed from Mosul, served as the Patriarch of Antioch and head of the Syriac Orthodox Church from 1872 until his death in 1894.

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