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Patriarch Ignatius Elias III of the Syriac Orthodox Church, about 1924

Place: Mosul · today Iraq
Date: 1920s

Seated studio portrait of Mar Ignatius Elias III, Syriac Orthodox ("Jacobite") Patriarch of Antioch, wearing his orders and decorations, with four lines of Syriac script printed beneath. Plate V of Harry Luke's Mosul and Its Minorities (1925).

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Luke, Mosul and Its Minorities (1925), via Internet Archive

Harry Charles Luke (author; most photographs his own) · Published 1925; public domain in the US.

Patriarch Ignatius Elias III of the Syriac Orthodox Church, about 1924

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