Melchite

(Vatican City: Biblioteca apostolica vaticana, 1944-53), and, for the Greek Orthodox and Greek Catholic communities, Joseph Nasrallah, Histoire du mouvement litte'raire dans I'Eglise melchite du Ve au XXe siecle, vols.

Exhibited on the second floor of the museum gallery is an array of Melchite icons from the private collection of Abou Adal.

NNA - 14/9/2012 The Melchite patriarch, Gregorius III Lahham delivered a word during the signing ceremony of the Post-Synodal Apostolic Exhortation: "Most Holy Father, Herzlich Wilkommen!

The 1962 session had been a time of discovery, with the Conciliar Fathers learning from the progressive leadership provided by a few--the likes of Cardinals Suenens, Lercaro, Montini (soon to become Pope Paul VI), Doepfner, Lienart, Frings, Alfrink, Bea and Koenig, the Melchite Patriarch Maximos IV Saigh and the talented Bishop De Smedt of Bruges.

They included Mrs Mona Makram Ebied and the multimillionaire Rami Lakah (in fact a Melchite Catholic, not a Copt), who had received support from the head of the Coptic Orthodox Church, Pope Shenuda.

American Archbishop of the Greek Melchite Church, Cyrille Salim Bustros, explained the synod's position "We Christians cannot speak about the promised land for the Jewish people.

Within the Stockholm Catholic Diocese, the Armenian, Chaldean, Maronite, Melchite, and Syrian churches celebrate Mass in their respective languages, as do the Polish, Croatian, Spanish, Italian, Eritrean, Vietnamese, Korean, and Ukrainian communities.

This grab bag of colorful ecclesiastical characters includes John Damascene, Theodore Abu Qurrah (a Melchite bishop in the ninth century who wrote treatises against the Muslims in Arabic), Peter the Venerable, Raymond Martini, Raymond Lull, Ricoldus de Monte Croce, Dionysius the Carthusian, Cardinal Juan Torquemada, Cardinal Nicholas of Cusa, and even the Florentine reformer Savonarola (of "bonfire of the vanities" fame).