Ignatius Aphrem II Email & Phone Number.

Ignatius Aphrem II is the 123rd Syriac Orthodox Patriarch of Antioch and the Archbishop of the Syriac Orthodox Archdiocese of the Eastern United States. He was born in Kamishly, Syria, on May 3, 1965. He entered St. Ephrem’s Theological Seminary in 1977, studied at the Coptic Theological Seminary in Cairo, earned a License of Sacred Theology from St. Patrick...

Cyril Aphrem Karim, who took the patriarchal name Ignatius Aphrem II, was elected the 123rd Syriac Orthodox Patriarch of Antioch on May 29 2014, following the death of Patriarch Zakka I. He was enthroned at St. Ephrem’s Monastery in Maarat Saidnaya, near Damascus, and serves as the head of the Syriac Orthodox Church.