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This was released today on the Antiochian Archdiocese website:

http://antiochian.org/node/18263
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Patriarch IGNATIUS IV to Visit the U.S.

Patriarch IGNATIUS IV A MESSAGE FROM METROPOLITAN PHILIP

Beloved Hierarchs, Reverend Clergy, Esteemed Members of the Archdiocese Board of Trustees, Members of the Order of St. Ignatius of Antioch, The Antiochian Women, Members of St. John the Divine and SOYO, and all faithful of our God-protected Archdiocese:

I am delighted to inform you that we have received news that our Father in Christ, His Beatitude, IGANTIUS IV, Patriarch of Antioch and all the East , will be visiting our Archdiocese this autumn. His Beatitude will arrive at Newark Liberty Airport on Tuesday, October 28, 2008, and will travel to Boston on Thursday, October 30. In Boston, he will preside over a fund-raising banquet on Saturday evening, November 1, 2008, to celebrate the 20th anniversary of the founding of the University of Balamand in Lebanon. During this auspicious occasion, the members of the Balamand Educational Foundation have decided to establish a scholarship fund in honor Metropolitan PHILIP (Saliba) for needy and worthy students.

If you would like to receive the blessings of His Beatitude, he will celebrate the Divine Liturgy on Sunday, November 2, 2008, at a place to be determined within the Diocese of New England. Hotel arrangements can be made at the Westin Copley Place, 10 Huntington Avenue, Boston, MA 02116 or by calling 800/937-8461. The rooms are reserved in the name of the University of Balamand/Antiochian Orthodox Archdiocese. The rate is $199.00 per night and you must make your reservations before October 17, 2008 to get this special rate. Please check our website www.antiochian.org [antiochian.org] for the latest information about the place and time of the Divine Liturgy and more information about the banquet.

Wishing you a blessed beginning of the new Ecclesiastical Year, I remain,

Your Father in Christ,

Metropolitan PHILIP, Primate

The Self-Ruled Antiochian Orthodox Christian Archdiocese of North America


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The full-length photograph of Patriarch Ignatius in vestments was taken in the Mariamme Cathedral in Damascus; the silver Holy Table behind the Patriarch was a gift from the Patriarchate of Moscow.

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Originally Posted by Serge Keleher
The full-length photograph of Patriarch Ignatius in vestments was taken in the Mariamme Cathedral in Damascus; the silver Holy Table behind the Patriarch was a gift from the Patriarchate of Moscow.

Fr. Serge

In this phtograph -- and in so many others that I've seen -- Patriarch Ignatius is wearing black vestments. Why is he so fond of black vestments?


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His vestments are actually a very dark red.


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Those vestments are purple, not black. If you want to know why the Patriarch likes them, you will have to ask him! De gustibus non est disputandum.

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Originally Posted by Serge Keleher
Those vestments are purple, not black. If you want to know why the Patriarch likes them, you will have to ask him! De gustibus non est disputandum.

Fr. Serge

Well, de gustibus and all that, but I thought that the Byzantine tradition still has traditions and customs on different colors for different occasions. It seems, from the pictures I've seen, that the Patriarch wears these very dark purple / very dark red vestments most if not all of the time!

But then, the Greek Orthodox Patriarch of Alexandria has a rather strange-looking mitre...

Carlos (who is not criticizing the Patriarch of Antioch, but is simply wondering whether he has stumbled on another "unique" custom in the Byzantine tradition)

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The Typicon only distinguishes between "dark" and "bright" vestments - which is why it is not particularly unusual to see the clergy at a concelebration wearing various colors.

Just to add to the confusion, in the northern climes there is a custom for the clergy to wear bright red for Paschal Orthros and suddenly switch into white for the Divine Liturgy which follows immediately.

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Among the Byzantine Churches of the Middle East this usually translates as: white/gold and "khamriy" (a sort of burgundy, a deep red heading in the direction of purple). And these are the terms usually used in the Arabic typika.

I have regularly seen other colours (e.g. blue for the Theotokos) worn, but they are not mentioned in anything other than oral tradition--as far as I can ascertain.

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I've had the honor of meeting him. Short guy with a raspy tenor voice, and has all of the words of the hours by heart (in Arabic). The guy "looks" Christian, if that makes any sense.

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His Beatitude is someone I knew of only through a book which Archpriest Peter Gilquist wrote. For a Middle-Eastern man who accepted 2000 blue-eyed, bible-thumping Christians, you can't go wrong about what matters most to him - Salvation in Christ.


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