St George Jacobite syrian orthodox church,addholle

St George JSO Christian Youth Association is the Youth Wing of St George Jacobite Syrian Christian Church,Addholle functioning under the Holy See of Antioch and all the East. It functions as per the supreme command of the Patriarch of Antioch and all the East.

The Syrian Orthodox Church is the Church of Antioch, commonly known as the Syrian Orthodox Church whose foundation goes back to very dawn of Christianity; The Church of Antioch is considered to be the most ancient and widely known of all churches after the Church of Jerusalem. The gospel was first preached in Antioch by some of Christ’s own disciples who fled Jerusalem after the Jewish persecution. Following the martyrdom St. Stephen the deacon ca. 34AD.
Antioch was visited by Barnabas, one of the seventy preachers, as well as St. Paul the Apostle. Both stayed in Antioch for an entire year preaching the gospel after St. Peter who preached the gospel there and established his apostolic See ca. AD. 33 and became its first Patriarch. Church celebrates 22 nd day of February as the day of the establishment of the See of St. Peter in Antioch. The book of Acts testifies that it was in Antioch that the disciples of Jesus Christ were first called Christians. The headquarters of the see of Antioch was in Antioch until 518 AD. On account of many historical upheavals and consequent hardships which the church had to undergo, it was transferred to different monasteries in Mesopotamia for centuries. In the 13th century it was transferred in the Monastery of Deir Al – Zaafaran, near Mardin, Turkey. In 1959 it was transferred again to Damascus, Syria.