Talk:Ignatius Antony I Samheri

Date of Samheri's election
According to Paul Bacel's article on the synod of Sharfet, held between 1 December 1853 and 14 January 1854 (Echos d'Orient, 14 (1911), p. 297), Samheri was elected patriarch on 1 December 1853, the first day of the synod. Bacel does not mention whether he was consecrated during the synod or later.

I would be interested to know the source for the dates of election and consecration given in the article.

I have drafted the following paragraph on the synod of Sharfet, which might come in useful in this or any of the other articles on the Syrian Catholic Church:

Ignatius Peter VII Jarweh died on 16 October 1851 and was succeeded two years later by his trusted friend Anton Samheri, previously metropolitan of Mardin. Ignatius Anton I Samheri (1853–64) was elected in December 1853, at a synod held in the monastery of Sharfet in Lebanon. The synod of Sharfet, which lasted from 1 December 1853 to 14 January 1854, was convened on the initiative of the apostolic delegate Benoît Planchet. As the first formal gathering of the Syrian Catholic episcopate, it represented an important advance in the institutional development of the Syrian Catholic Church. Planchet presided at the synod, and the metropolitans of Mardin, Damascus, Hims and Beirut were present. Two metropolitans were unable to attend, but voted in absentia: Gregory Isa of Mosul and Gregory Zaitun of Midyat, a Syrian Orthodox bishop who had joined the Syrian Catholic Church several years earlier.

Djwilms (talk) 07:20, 30 October 2013 (UTC)