Athanasius Yeshue Samuel

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In 1947, while Metropolitan of Jerusalem of the

Following the end of the British mandate over Palestine and Transjordan and the outbreak of hostilities between Arabs and Jews, Mor Samuel relocated to the United States in 1949, and played a major role in the life of the Syriac Orthodox Church in North America. From 1952, he served as Patriarchal Vicar to the United States and Canada, and from 1957, as Archbishop of the newly created Archdiocese of the United States and Canada.

Bibliography

• Wilson, Edmund, The Dead Sea Scrolls, 1947–1969, New York: Oxford University Press, 1969.
• Vanderkam, James and Flint, Peter, The Meaning of the Dead Sea Scrolls, Continuum International Publishing Group, 2005.

External links

• Syriac Orthodox Church of Antioch

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