The
Syrian Catholic Church is a
Christian church in the
Levant in communion with the
pope having practices and rite in common with the
Jacobites. They are one of the
Eastern-Rite Catholic churches. These 'Syrian Catholics' number about as many as the Jacobites; their head, the
Syrian Catholic Patriarch[?] of Antioch, lives at
Beirut. They have a separate church organization from the
Melkites[?],
Maronites, and
Chaldaean Catholics[?], which are other communities of the Levant in communion with Rome.
