St George Jacobite Syrian Orthodox Church

Leeds

"Let us arise and go to Bethel; and I will make an altar there to God, who answered me in the day of my distress and has been with me in the way which I have gone." Genesis 35:3

Holy Mass- 2nd Sunday - 9am
Holy Mass- 4th Sunday - 9am

Church Timing

Holy Mass and Special Services

Holy Mass

Second Sunday

9:00am

Fourth Sunday

9:00am

Sunday School

12:30pm

After Holy Mass

Holy Week

Lent Retreat - 23rd March

1:30pm

Palm Sunday- 24th March

9:00am

Maundy Wed- 27th March

5:30pm

Good Friday- 29th March

9:00am

Easter Service- 30th March

6:00pm

About Our Church

We are a congregation of Indian expatriates from the state of Kerala. Most of us live in and around Leeds. We meet at least twice a month at St. James's Hospital Chapel, on second and fourth Sundays of each month to celebrate the Holy Mass in the Syrian Orthodox tradition in Malayalam, the native language of Kerala. There are sunday school classes after the Holy Mass. Our parish is built upon the devotion and living faith of all its members, who actively partake in the worship and every other spiritual activity of the church. The Leeds St.George Jacobite Syrian Orthodox Church is a culmination of dreams of many Christian malayalee families, who left the shore of India in search of job in UK. The success and faith borne growth of this Parish is dedicated to the hundreds of worshippers, who without hesitation worked in solitude and eternal grace to develop the parish, create in it the magma of belief in His Almighty. The parish is under the patronage of His Holiness Moran Mor Ignatius Aphrem II (Prince Patriarch of Antioch & Supreme Head of the universal Syrian Orthodox Church), H.G Issac Mor Osthatheos -Diocesan Bishop (Metropolitan of United Kingdom). You are most welcome to join us to live in Christ.

Spiritual Leaders

May 3, 1965

His Holiness Moran Mor Ignatius Aphrem II (Patriarch of Antioch and all the East)

On March 21, 2014, Patriarch Ignatius Zakka I Iwas demised after a long illness. The Holy Synod of the Syriac Orthodox Church of Antioch was convened to elect a successor. The synod was held at St Jacob Baradeus Monastery in Atchaneh, Lebanon, presided over by Mor Baselios Thomas I Catholicos of India and Mor Severius Jamil Hawa Archbishop of Baghdad and Basra and Patriarchal Locum Tenens. The synod elected Cyril Aphrem Karim to be the 123rd successor of St. Peter in the Apostolic See of Antioch. He was enthroned on May 29, 2014, at St Ephrem's Monastery, Maarat Saidnaya, near Damascus, Syria. Baselios Thomas I oversaw the ceremony.Karim took the patriarchal name Ignatius, replacing his episcopal name Cyril, and, being the second patriarch to bear the monastic name Aphrem (the first being Ignatius Aphrem I Barsoum), his name became Ignatius Aphrem II. Unlike his immediate predecessors, but following older convention, Aphrem II chose not to use his family name, Karim, in his official title.
July 22, 1929

H. B. Aboon Mor Baselios Thomas I Catholicos of the East

Catholicos Baselios Thomas I (July 22, 1929) is Maphriyono/Catholicos of the Syriac Orthodox Church and the regional head of Malankara Syriac Orthodox Church. His official title is Catholicos of India although sometimes called Catholicos of the East. It was on 26 July 2002 he was enthroned as the Catholicos and the head of the Church in India. He is the regional head of the 1.2 million Syriac Christians of India, a Christian community believed to have been established by Apostle St. Thomas in a place called Maliyankara, near North Paravur in South India in AD. 52.
January 17, 1976

H.G ISSAC MOR OSTHATHEOS -DIOCESAN BISHOP - Metropolitan U.K

Home Parish : St. Stephens Jacobite Syrian Orthodox Church, Koothattukulam. Education : Post Graduation in Economics. Theological Studies : M.S.O.T. Seminary, Udayagiri Korooyo : Late lamented MorOsthatheos Thomas Metropolitan on 13th May 1993 Semsono : His Grace MorGregorios Joseph, Metropolitan of Kochi diocese Kassisso : 12th November 2006 Late lamented Moran Mor Ignatius Zakka-I Iwas Ramban : 2nd January 2010 (Ordinated by Catholicos HB Baselios Thomas I) Metropolitan : On January4, 2010 (Ordinated by Catholicos HB Baselios Thomas I)H.G. Mor Osthatheos Ishaq was born on January 17th 1976 as the son of Mr. C.I. Thomas and Saramma Thomas, Pachilakkattu (Ceetharukuzhiyil) Puthuveli, Kottayam. The St. Stephens Jacobite Syrian Orthodox Church, Koothattukulam in Kandanadu Diocese is the home parish of the Metropolitan. Late Lamented Mor Osthathios Thomas, Metropolitan of Kochi diocese, is his grandfather’s brother.