Talk:East syriac rite

Just so anyone is wondering why I created this link, well, it's quite simple.

We have a page on the West Syriac Rite, which is used by the Syriac Orthodox Church, formerly the Syrian Orthodox Church, whose Patriarch of Antioch lives in Damascus, and who still has a lot of members in the country of Syria (in extreme danger due to the war), but also many members in Turkey, Lebanon, Israel and Palestine, as well as the Maronite Catholic Church and the Syriac Catholic Church (the former being based in Lebanon and the latter presumably occupying similiar geographic territories to Syria. These churches also feature a large diaspora.  There are also a number of Indian churches in Malankara using the West Syriac Rite or derivatives thereof, one of which is directly linked to the Syriac Orthodox Church.  However, certainly a very large chunk of the Syriac Orthodox Church, which used to be called the Syrian Orthodox Church, is in Syria, but since 2000, they renamed the church as the Syriac Orthodox Church in order to avoid linking themselves to the polity of the state of Syria.

The East Syriac Rite is used by four churches, to my knowledge: the Assyrian Church of the East, which only has a very small number of believers in Syria, most having fled to Iraq or Iran a long time ago due to persecutions, the Chaldean Catholic Church, which is also mostly in Iraq and Iran, a portion of the Syriac Orthodox Church uses a similiar rite (the same rubrics as the Western Rite, but music closer to that of the Assyrian Church of the East, and the East Syrian/Assyrian accent (Mar versus Mor, Alaha versus Aloho, Barehkmar versus Barehkmor, and so on), and finally, some of the Malankara Christians in India. The majority of users of this rite are not in Syria and have no connection with Syrian nationality, per se.  Thus it makes sense to ensure consistency, that the article on the "East Syrian Rite" also be directly accessible by typing in "East Syriac Rite".

Wgw2024 (talk) 13:07, 21 July 2013 (UTC)