THE NEWLY ORDAINED METROPOLITANS
HIS EMINENCE KURIAKOSE MOR CLEMIS & HIS EMINENCE PAULOSE MOR IRENIOUS
WITH PATRIARCH HIS HOLINESS MOR MOR IGNATOIS ZAKKA I IWAS,
CATHOLICOS HIS BEATITUDE ABOON MOR BASELIOS THOMAS I
AND METROPOLITANS OF THE UNIVERSAL SYRIAC ORTHODOX CHURCH OF ANTIOCH & ALL THE EAST
(August 24, 2008 --- St. Peter & St. Paul Patriarchal Cathedral, Monastery of Saint Aphrem, Ma`rrat Sayyidnaya, Damascus, Syria)
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Primates of the Church (from left):
MOR PHILEXINOS MATHIAS NAYIS (Metropolitan of St. Aphrem Theological Seminary, Damascus)
MOR SILWANOS PETRUS ISSA AL-NEMEH (Metropolitan of Homs & Hama, Syria)
MOR APHREM MATHEWS (High-Range region of Angamali diocese)
MOR CLEMIS KURAIKOSE (Newly ordained metropolitan for Idukki diocese)
ABOON MOR BASELIOS THOMAS I, CATHOLICOS & METROPOLITAN TRUSTEE OF THE JACOBITE SYRIAC ORTHODOX CHURCH IN INDIA
MORAN MOR IGNATIUS ZAKKA I IWAS, PATRIARCH OF ANTIOCH & ALL THE EAST AND SUPREME HEAD OF THE SYRIAC CHURCH
MOR IRENIOUS PAULOSE (Newly ordained metropolitan for Calicut diocese)
MOR GREGORIOS JOSEPH (Metropolitan of Kochi diocese & Malankara Episcopal Synod Secretary)
MOR TIMOTHEOS APHREM ABOODI (Former Patriarchal Vicar for Canada)
MOR SEVERIOS MALKE MOURAD (Patriarchal-Vicar for Jerusalem & Jordan)
MOR JUSTINOS PAULOSE YOUSEF SAFAR (Patriarchal-Vicariate of Zahle & Beqa', Zahle, Lebanon)