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Lebanon
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The Jacobites or Syrian Monophysites, often referred to as the
Syrian Orthodox Church, take their name from Jacob Baradeus who
spread the teachings of the church throughout Syria in the sixth
century. The doctrinal position of the Jacobites is that after the
incarnation, Christ had only one divine nature. This is contrary to
the orthodox Christian position that states Christ had both a human
and divine nature. The church follows the Syriac liturgy of St.
James and has an independent hierarchy under the Patriarch of
Antioch, whose seat was formerly at Mardin in Turkish Kurdistan and
is now at Homs, Syria. As of 1987 there were only a few thousand
Jacobites in Lebanon.
Data as of December 1987
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