The General Directorate of Syriac Culture and Arts announces that the Syriac Orthodox Church’s Patriarchal Vicar for Syriac Studies, Mor Severios Roger Akhrass, will be the guest of honour at the First Athra Syriac Symposium, which the Directorate intends to hold in cooperation with the Yonan Hozaya Center for Future Studies and Research early next September, in the Erbil governorate’s Ankawa district.
Bishop Mor Severios Roger Akhrass is a Patriarchal Vicar and Director of the Syriac Orthodox Patriarchate of Antioch’s Syriac Studies Department. He holds a Master’s degree in Theology from the University of the Holy Spirit, Kaslik (Lebanon), and a Doctorate in the field of Church Patristics from the Catholic University of Paris. He has many studies and articles on the Syriac liturgy and Syriac heritage.
The General Directorate of Syriac Culture and Arts had announced earlier that British Professor Sebastian Brock will also be the guest of honour at the First Athra Syriac Symposium, which will be held early next September.
It is worth noting that the First Syriac Symposium, which will be held for the period from 5 to 8 of next September, under the slogan “Syriac as a living culture… despite challenges to its survival,” will be held in the Patriarch Mar Joseph VI Audo Conference Hall at the Monastery of the Martyr Gabriel Danbo, in Ankawa, Erbil, and will include visits to the Cultural Center for the Preservation of Syriac Manuscripts, the Syriac Heritage Museum and the Oriental Manuscripts Digital Documentation Centre.
To submit an abstract and bio to participate in the “First Athra Syriac Symposium” please see the links below:
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