St. Toma Syriac Catholic Cathedral

St. Toma Syriac Catholic Cathedral
St. Toma Syriac Catholic Cathedral
	The church building in 2023
	42°28′57.5″N 83°23′54.3″W / 42.482639°N 83.398417°W
Location	25600 Drake Rd.; Farmington Hills, Michigan
Country	United States
Denomination	Catholic Church
Sui iuris church	Syriac Catholic Church
Website	www.martomami.com
History
Status	Cathedral; Parish church
Dedication	Thomas the Apostle
Dedicated	2002
Architecture
Architectural type	Modern
Administration
Diocese	Our Lady of Deliverance in the United States
Clergy
Bishop(s)	Most Rev. Yousif Habash
Chancellor	Rev. Luke Edelen, O.S.B.

St. Toma Cathedral is a Syriac Catholic cathedral located in Farmington Hills, Michigan, United States. It is the seat of the Eparchy of Our Lady of Deliverance in the United States.^[1] St. Toma is the first church erected outside of the Middle East to serve Syriac Catholics, who locally, were refugees from Iraq, Lebanon, and Syria.^[2] They initially used facilities of the Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Detroit before acquiring a church building of their own.^[3] The property on which the present church is located was bought from the Archdiocese of Detroit. The foundation stones were laid in 2000 by Patriarch Ignatius Moses I Daoud, and the church was completed in 2002.

The eparchy was established by Pope John Paul II in 1995. A cathedral was established in the former St. Joseph Roman Catholic Church in Bayonne, New Jersey in 2011.^[4] In 2018, that church building was deconsecrated, and the property became part of a planned redevelopment project.^[5] St. Joseph Cathedral moved to the former St. Michael's Roman Catholic Church, also in Bayonne. On July 1, 2022, Pope Francis approved moving the seat of the Eparchy of Our Lady of Deliverance from St. Joseph Cathedral in Bayonne to St. Toma. The move places the cathedral closer to the center of the Syriac Catholic population in the United States.^[2]

References[edit]

^ "St. Toma Syriac Catholic Cathedral". Giga Catholic. Retrieved 2023-06-09.
^ ^a ^b Michael Stechschulte (January 10, 2023). "St. Toma Syriac Cathedral in Farmington Hills is the new spiritual epicenter for 16,000 Syriac Catholics across U.S." Detroit Catholic. Detroit. Retrieved 2023-06-09.
^ "Parish History". St. Toma Syriac Catholic Cathedral. Retrieved 2023-06-09.
^ Michael T. Dempsey (January 5, 2011). "Roman Catholic church in Bayonne will now serve Syriac Catholics". The Jersey Journal. Secaucus. Retrieved 2023-06-09.
^ Chris Fry (30 May 2018). "Two-Pronged Development Coming to Church Property on Bayonne's Avenue E". Jersey Digs. Retrieved 2023-06-09.

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[gcatholic-1] "St. Toma Syriac Catholic Cathedral". Giga Catholic. Retrieved 2023-06-09.

[Stechschulte-2] Michael Stechschulte (January 10, 2023). "St. Toma Syriac Cathedral in Farmington Hills is the new spiritual epicenter for 16,000 Syriac Catholics across U.S." Detroit Catholic. Detroit. Retrieved 2023-06-09.

[Toma-3] "Parish History". St. Toma Syriac Catholic Cathedral. Retrieved 2023-06-09.

[Dempsey-4] Michael T. Dempsey (January 5, 2011). "Roman Catholic church in Bayonne will now serve Syriac Catholics". The Jersey Journal. Secaucus. Retrieved 2023-06-09.

[Fry-5] Chris Fry (30 May 2018). "Two-Pronged Development Coming to Church Property on Bayonne's Avenue E". Jersey Digs. Retrieved 2023-06-09.

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West Syriac Rite
Patriarchs	Ignatius Andrew Akijan (1662–1677/1678) Ignatius Gregory Peter VI Shahbaddin (1678–1701/1702) Isaac Basilios Joubeir (1703–1704) (elected, not ordained) Ignatius Michael III Jarweh (1782–1800) Ignatius Michael IV Daher (1802–1810) Ignatius Simon II Hindi Zora (1814–1818) Ignatius Peter VII Jarweh (1820–1851) Ignatius Antony I Samheri (1852/1853–1864) Ignatius Philip I Arkus (1866–1874) Ignatius George V Shelhot (1874–1891) Ignatius Behnam II Benni (1893–1897) Ignatius Ephrem II Rahmani (1898–1929) Ignatius Gabriel I Tappouni (1929–1968) Ignatius Antony II Hayyek (1968–1998) Ignatius Moses I Daoud (1998–2001) Ignatius Peter VIII Abdalahad (2001–2008) Ignatius Joseph III Yonan (2009–present)
Eparchies	Eparchy of Beirut Archeparchy of Damascus Archeparchy of Homs Archeparchy of Aleppo Archeparchy of Al-Hasakah-Nisibis Archeparchy of Mosul Archeparchy of Baghdad Eparchy of Cairo Patriarchal Exarchate of Basra and the Gulf Patriarchal Exarchate of Jerusalem Patriarchal Exarchate of Turkey Patriarchal Dependency of Sudan and South Sudan Eparchy of Our Lady of Deliverance in the United States Apostolic Exarchate of Canada Apostolic Exarchate of Venezuela
Churches	Cathedral of Saint Paul, Damascus Our Lady of the Assumption Cathedral, Aleppo Mar Assia al-Hakim Church Al-Tahera Church, Mosul Sayidat al-Nejat Cathedral, Baghdad Church of Saint Thomas, Jerusalem St. Joseph Cathedral, Bayonne St. Toma Cathedral, Farmington Hills Our Lady of the Assumption Cathedral, Maracay
Monasteries	Mar Behnam Monastery Monastery of Saint Moses the Abyssinian Monastery of St. Elian
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