PhotographAA-0662

Patriarch Yacoub III at the Virgin Mary church on the first patriarchal visit to America, 1960

Place

New Jersey

Date

1960

Patriarch Ignatius Yacoub III with bishops, clergy and parishioners at the door of the Virgin Mary Syriac Orthodox church during his March 1960 visit, which the site describes as the first time a Syriac Orthodox patriarch set foot in America. His secretary, the monk Zakka (later Patriarch Zakka I), and Archbishops Athanasius Yeshue Samuel and Gregorius Boulos Behnam were with him.