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    Dayro d-Mor Mattai (Syriac: ܕܝܪܐ ܕܡܪܝ ܡܬܝ; Arabic: دير مار متى; The Monastery of St. Matthew) is a Syriac Orthodox Church monastery on Mount Alfaf in...
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  • chrism was agreed and confirmed the merger of the dioceses of the Mor Mattai Monastery and of Tikrit. Towards the middle of the 12th century, many Syriac...
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    Mor Mattai Monastery (Dayro d-Mor Mattai) in, Bartella is one of the oldest Christian monasteries and is famous for its magnificent library...
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    changing the see location from the traditional Mor Mattai Monastery. An agreement was reached to return to Mar Mattai, with the tradition to visit Bartella regularly...
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    city of Mosul for half a century, before settling in the nearby Monastery of Mar Mattai (still belonging to the Syriac Orthodox Church) and thus not far...
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    Tikrit had to relocate to the Mor Mattai Monastery, where a village named Merki was established in the valley below the monastery. A later governor permitted...
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    in the Middle East Religion in the Middle East Mor Mattai Monastery List of churches and monasteries in Nineveh Delegation Apostolic of Mesopotamia,...
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  • Saint Matthew the Hermit (Arabic: القديس مار متى الناسك; Syriac: ܡܪܝ ܡܬܝ Mor Mattai) was a 4th-century Christian priest. He is venerated as a saint in the...
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    Mor Mattai Monastery...
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    Azerbaijan. The many Armenian churches and monasteries in the region, such as the notable St. Thaddeus Monastery, are extant remainders of this. Other significantly...
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  • esteemed. He died in Maragheh, Ilkhanate Persia, and was buried at the Mor Mattai Monastery, near Mosul. He left an autobiography, to be found in Giuseppe Simone...
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  • well as the main courtyard of the monastery and parts of the exterior. Wikivoyage has a travel guide for Mar Mattai. https://penntoday.upenn...
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    fighting each other, the Kurds used the opportunity to attack the Mor Mattai Monastery. According to the 13th-century writer Bar Hebraeus, in 1261 the Kurds...
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    Synod. This synod was held at the Mor Mattai Monastery in 1930 and it was the 3rd time that it was held in this monastery throughout the long history of...
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    the Catholicos, the visiting Archbishop Mor Thimotheos Mousa Al Shamani of Nineveh and the Abbot of Mor Mattai Dayro, Mosul, Iraq and all the Metropolitans...
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    refugees in the Monastery of Mor Quryaqos. After this, Elias was appointed Chief of the Monastery of Mor Quryaqos and Monastery of Mor Hananyo. In 1908...
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    warn the occupants of the monastery of bandits. Mount Mar Daniel Mar Mattai Monastery صوامع جبل الفاف (in Arabic). MorMattai.com. Archived from the original...
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  • within his own administration, such as the metropolitan of the Monastery of Mar Mattai near Nineveh, who was jealous of the preponderating influence of...
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    in the monastery of the Cross at al-ʿItafiya. In the Mosul region, which had long had only the single diocese of the monastery of Mar Mattai, a new diocese...
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  • some walls remain). Saint Elijah's Monastery, near Mosul, Iraq is a 6th-century ruin and among the oldest monasteries in Iraq St. George's Church, Izra...
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  • of the West Syriac tradition with the same bilingual culture include Mar Mattai, Mar Zakay, Mar Saba, Saint Catherine's and the Black Mountain. Both secular...
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    and archaeological sites, as well as numerous Assyrian churches and monasteries have been systematically vandalized and destroyed by ISIL. These include...
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    Archbishop Severius Jamil Hawa Syrian Orthodox Archbishopric of St Matthew's Monastery under the spiritual guidance and direction of Archbishop Timothius Mousa...
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    12 August 2016 at the Wayback Machine). Yale University. "Monastère de Mor Mattai – Mossul – Irak" (in French). Archived from the original on 3 March 2014...
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    then converts to Christianity and founds an important monastery near Mosul, called Deir Mar Mattai. The 7th-century Assyrian History of Mar Qardagh made...
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