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Bp. of
Patriarchal Magazine
(Jerusalem). He became an abbot of the monastery and in 1946 was consecrated
bp. of Jerusalem.
In 1947 he purchased from Arab bedouins through Iskandar Shahin (Kando), a
Syriac antiquity dealer from Bethlehem, four Dead Sea Scrolls, later to be
known as the St. Mark’s Scrolls. In 1948, he traveled with the Scrolls to
the United States for the purpose of making the Scrolls available to a wider
market. In the United States, the
In 1948 he was appointed Apostolic Legate to the United States, and in 1957
he became the first bp. of the United States and Canada. He was instrumental
in the advancement of this new diocese. He is remembered by many
parishioners for his humility and for the help that he rendered to new
immigrants, sometimes even taking old ladies shopping for food in his car.
In 1971 he took part in the consecration of the Coptic Pope Shenouda III.
In addition to his English autobiography (1966, AT 1985), he wrote a series
of Syriac readers entitled mhadyono dšarwoye l-lešono
oromoyo / Aramaic new method readers (vols.
1–3, Jerusalem, 1937–45; vols. 4–6, Glanerbrug, 1984); critics, however,
claim that
Anaphora of St. James (1967, ET only), The sacrament of holy baptism (1974), The order of solemnization of the sacrament of
matrimony (1974), The order for the burial of the
dead (1974), the mʿadʿdono entitled
(1984),
and
See Fig. 40.