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List Of Palestinian Christians
The following Lists of Palestinian Christians are lists of notable Christians who either self-identified as Palestinian , or were referred to as Palestinian in reference of their origin or long-time residence being in the Palestine region, the designation being an endonym and exonym respectively. Pre-Arabization * Cosmas of Maiuma * Dorotheus of Gaza * Hilarion * Theodore of the Jordan * Sabbas the Sanctified * Theophanes the Branded * Zosimas of Palestine * Saint Reparata * Eusebius * Saint Agapius of Palestine * Joseph of Tiberias * Procopius of Scythopolis * Agapius of Caesarea * Peter Apselamus * Joseph of Tiberias * Saint George * Zayya * Epiphanius of Salamis * Cyril of Jerusalem * Gelasius of Caesarea * Hesychius of Jerusalem * Barsanuphius of Gaza * John the Prophet * Dorotheus of Gaza * Seridus of Gaza * Vitalis of Gaza * Maximus the Confessor * Pope Theodore I * Stephen the Sabaite * Theodorus and Theophanes Clergymen * Sulayman al-Ghazzi - 11th ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Palestinian Christians
Palestinian Christians ( ar, مَسِيحِيُّون فِلَسْطِينِيُّون, Masīḥiyyūn Filasṭīniyyūn) are Christian citizens of the State of Palestine. In the wider definition of Palestinian Christians, including the Palestinian refugees, diaspora and people with full or partial Palestinian Christian ancestry this can be applied to an estimated 500,000 people worldwide as of 2000. Palestinian Christians belong to one of a number of Christian denominations, including Eastern Orthodoxy, Oriental Orthodoxy, Catholicism (Eastern and Western rites), Anglicanism, Lutheranism, other branches of Protestantism and others. Bernard Sabella of Bethlehem University estimates that 6% of the Palestinian population worldwide is Christian and that 56% of them live outside of the region of Palestine. In both the local dialect of Palestinian Arabic and in Classical Arabic or Modern Standard Arabic, Christians are called '' Nasrani'' (the Arabic word Nazarene) or ''Masihi'' (a de ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
