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Patriarch Ignatius Yacoub III at a banquet in Aleppo, mid-1960s

Place: Aleppo · today Syria
Date: 1960s

Patriarch Ignatius Yacoub III and Bishop Gerges (Dionysius Georges Behnam) seated at a long dinner table with priests and laymen of the Syriac community; the source names many of the guests and dates it to probably the mid-1960s.

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urhoy1924.com (Syriac community of Aleppo; many prints watermarked Qenshrin.com), via Wikimedia Commons

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Patriarch Ignatius Yacoub III at a banquet in Aleppo, mid-1960s

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