Ignatius Jacob I

Ignatius Jacob I was the Patriarch of Antioch, and head of the Syriac Orthodox Church from 1512 until his death in 1517.

Jacob was born in the 15th century in the village of alAhmadiyya to the monk known as Ibn alMuzawwiq. Jacob became a monk at the Monastery of Saint Moses the Abyssinian in AnNabk where he studied calligraphy under Musa Ubayd, metropolitan bishop of Sadad and was also ordained as a priest. Later, he moved to the Monastery of Mor Hananyo and to the Monastery of Mor Abhai, near Mardin, in 1480.

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