Author: Fr Yuhanna Azize

St John Chrysostom is one of the most important of all the many famous bishops from Antioch. He is celebrated in the Maronite Liturgy which has an Anaphora in his […]

I have introduced St John Chrysostom: https://www.fryuhanna.com/2026/01/16/st-john-chrysostom-life/ I now consider his book On the Priesthood. This is a relatively long work, and was written by Chrysostom not as a homily, but as a […]

St Theophilus of Antioch  In Antioch, Bishop Heron succeeded Ignatius, probably in 116, and he was followed, possibly in 128, by Cornelius, and then by Bishop Eros in 142. Downey […]

We now come to St Ignatius’s Epistle to the Ephesians. This is the longest of the epistles, and in many ways the most important. His name is given first: “Ignatius, […]

Ignatius, who refers to himself as “the bishop of Syria” (Romans 2.2), was important in the Maronite tradition: his letters were retained and studied, and an Anaphora of St Ignatius […]

52nd Maronite Podcast  Maronite History: Part Two 1.2.3    A Distinctive Identity for the Christians in Antioch  The detail that Barnabas, possibly one of the seventy disciples, went to Antioch, is […]

1.2.             Antioch in the New Testament (51st Maronite Meditations Podcast)  So far as we know, none of the apostles or disciples went there during the life of Christ. However, Antiochians […]