Ignatius Noah Of Lebanon
Ignatius Noah of Lebanon ( syr, ܦܛܪܝܪܟܐ ܢܘܚ ܠܒܢܢܝܐ, ar, البطريرك نوح اللبناني), also known as Nūḥ Pūnīqoyo or Nūḥ al-Bqūfānī, was the Patriarch of Antioch and head of the Syriac Orthodox Church from 1493/1494 until his death in 1509. Biography Noah was born in 1451 at the village of Baqufa on Mount Lebanon to a Maronites, Maronite family, but later converted and joined the Syriac Orthodox Church. He entered the monastery of Saint Moses the Abyssinian, near Al-Nabek in Syria, and studied religion and Syriac language, Syriac under the monk-priest Thomas of Homs. Noah became a priest and was later ordained as archbishop of Homs in 1480, upon which he assumed the name Cyril. It is noted by the anonymous continuator of the ''Ecclesiastical History'' of Bar Hebraeus that Noah was proficient in Arabic and Syriac. Several years prior to 1487, Noah travelled from Jerusalem to Fraydiss, near Ehden in Bsharri District on Mount Lebanon, to prea ...
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