• Armenian Catholic Clergy Institute
  Bzommar, Lebanon
• Bibliothèque Orientale at the Université Saint-Joseph
  Beirut, Lebanon
• Our Lady of Balamand Monastery and University
  Tripoli, Lebanon
• Armenian Apostolic Catholicosate of the Great House of Cilicia
  Antelias, Lebanon
• Deir Mar Yuhanna al-Shuwayr (“Monastery of Saint John the Baptist at Shweir”)
  Khonchara, Lebanon
• Monastery of Saint George at Deir-esh-Shir
  Jounieh, Lebanon
• Université du Saint-Esprit
  Kaslik, Lebanon
• Deir el-Kreim, Lebanese Maronite Missionary Order
  Jounieh, Lebanon

• Priory of Rome
• National Archives of Malta

• Melkite Greek-Catholic Archdiocese of Aleppo
  Aleppo, Syria
• Syriac Orthodox Archdiocese of Aleppo
  Aleppo, Syria
• Syriac Catholic Archdiocese of Aleppo
  Aleppo, Syria
• Syriac Orthodox Archdiocese of Homs
  Homs, Syria

• The Stefanyk Library of the National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine
  L’viv, Ukraine
• L’viv Historical Museum
  L’viv, Ukraine

• Saint Thomas Christian Manuscript Collections
  Kerala, India

• Austria/Germany/Switzerland
• British Isles
• Iberia
• Italy
• Malta
• South Africa
• Sweden
• Ethiopia

The Syriac Catholic Church is one of the several extant branches of the Syriac-speaking church of Antioch. In its earliest centuries, the patriarchate of Antioch was culturally Greek in some of its major cities but Semitic in both the countryside and the great cities to the east such as Edessa and Nisibis.

Syriac Christians encountered Catholic missionaries in Aleppo, Syria, in the 17th century, and a Catholic party started to grow within the Syriac Orthodox Church. The first Syriac Catholic patriarch was based first in Aleppo and then in Mardin, Turkey, near his Orthodox counterpart. Turkish persecution forced both patriarchs to flee in the 1920s. The Syriac Catholic patriarch is now based in Lebanon.

HMML has just completed a project digitizing the manuscripts of the Syriac Catholic Church in Aleppo, whose community has a large, modern, church in the Christian Quarter. The collection of some 500 manuscripts at the Archbishopric contains many rescued from churches in Turkey and brought to Aleppo for safekeeping. The manuscripts are in Syriac, Arabic, and Karshuni (Arabic written with Syriac letters).

Learn more about the Syriac Catholic Church.

Tekso da‘modo qadisho (Rite of Holy Baptism). Syriac text with Karshuni rubrics. Shown: beginning of the rite. MS. SCAA SL07(9), fol. 1v-2r. Manuscript on paper, dated 1844. 21 x 16 cm. Copyright: Syriac Catholic Archbishopric of Aleppo, Syria.