The Pope is the first among Patriarchs....



While we discuss here about leadership or elderness or the primacy, let us

understand some real facts of real history:



There is no historical proof that the Apostle Peter was in Rome.



A chair that tradicionally was said to be used by Peter in Rome and was in the

Vatican was declared as false by the Pope John XXIII.



Historians already proved that the Turim Sudary (SUDORO in Aramaic language) is

not of the time of Christ.



And great emperor Constantine in History is proved to have assassinated his

family and only accepted being baptized when he was already in bed dying.



Constantine liberated the Christian religion due to the fact that Christians

were pacific people that payed their taxes and didn't cause problems for the

emperor.



Now as an economist, I tell you that Constantine built Constantinopolis due to

economical results, he would be instaled nearer to the places were riches were

produced, and that was Asia Minor, Middle East and also in someway nearer to the

cultural center of his empire.



Please don't forget that in the first Council, i.e. Niceia, only two priest from

the Roman Church were present. And all discussions and dogmas were performed by

Oriental Clergymen from Alexandria and Antioch - there were no Indians or other

Europeans.



Also the Byzantine Cathedra or Constantinopolis, was not yet organized cause the

city didn't exist totally or its establishment begins with Constantine.



In the Council of Constantinopolis (381 AD) five patriachs were declared

basilars of Christianity:



Jerusalem, Antioch, Alexandria, Rome and Constantinopolis.



As for your admirable cruzaders, they only destroyed the Midle East and the Holy

Land, sack, steal, and raved the lands. Do you know how many miserables,

knights, soldiers and princes entered the cruzades only for sacking, and do you

know how many goods that exist in Europe in Museums or riches declared of the

kings and nobles were stollen from the Middle East?



Great western Richard Lion's Heart, the King of England, and his cruzaders were

forced to sign an agreement with the kurd Saladin, permiting at least the

Christians Pilgrims visit the Holy Land, because they wont support ánymore the

war with Saladin.



And do you know that Saladin, declared Jerusalem a Holy Land for Jews,

Christians and Muslims? and also he built a small Synagoge for the Jews on or

near the wall of the temple, and that the Jews themselves destroyed this small

Synagoge cause Saladin was infidel for them?



During the end of the 19th Century and the begining of the 20th Century, our

Assyrian Communities, where involved by the English empire under promise that

they would have a small land called Assuristan, where Christian Assyrians,

Syrian Christians, Orthodox or Catholic and even Protestants would have their

rights respected, the English Empire called those Assyrians as our Smallest

Allies; and then, when the English empire decided that would work with Ataturk

in Turkey, Winston Churchill abandoned our people and said that they should have

their rights with the new governors of the Middle East, and our people where

massacrated, my father Abrohom and his brother Rev. Peter Sowmy where the only

survivers of a family of more than 60 persons, they and many others where

abandoned as for example also my mothers family, Haddodo, all men and children

were killed by axe in front of my grand-grandmother so that she would abandon

Cristianism and turn to be muslim.



Sorry, Mr. JM Paul, you read the great books of the western people, but before

western civilization existed a really great history of humanity, where the king

of Ninive, yes, Assyrian, accepted the profecy of Jonah, and made all his people

repent and live. There existed also the Assyrian king of Edessa that accepted

Christ yet in life.



The great discovery of the library of Assurbanipal, The epic of Gilgamesh, the

sudies of Chaldeans, Babylonians, Arameans and why not also Egyptians, those

civilizations were the fountain of knowledge for the west people, Greek and

Romans, and finally, let us not forget the great names of the Christian

monofisist (syrian orthodox) and Nestorians like Hunain Ibn Musa and Kusta ibn

Luka of the aristotelic studies from Aramaic to the arabic language or the

studies and translations of the Syrian orthodox doctor (medicine) Aaron in the

early development of the arabic expansion in the Midle East.



Today, these Assyrians are divided in small communities that survived due to

their faith and hope in our Saviour Jesus Christ.



Please remember, the Apostle Thomas alone could not preach and create a

Christian community like this that exists in India; remember that when Vasco da

Gama the Portuguese, wanted to reach India he contracted a Phoenician Christian

pilot for his ship and when he reached India he registered that he saw people

using crosses!!! Its not Roman Catholic preaching.



When Paul established the Church he began preaching to the Jews in different

points in Asia Minor and he was persecuted by the rich jews till they fulfiled

their aim kiling him Rome. So he preached to other people and those other people

established first Christianism in the World.



As for you and many others, I do as my father Abrohom GAbriel Sowmy, first

deacon, historian, poet, literary man, civil engenier and architech taught me,

pray for those who lift themselves and their voices against the truth so that

God Almighty will iluminate them.



The truth is to understand the reality of facts, to observe, analyse,

understand, and teach.



Perhaps my knowledge is not complete in history, but who said that ignorance is

a bless?



I considere myself blessed by God due to the fact to be born of a good family

and created my sons in the teaching of our Church.



I seek permanetly knowledge, cause I know nothing, and thus I will not returne

to this discussing point.



While we discuss the chiefs of the churches according to their knowledge and

interest sign agreements and call them ecumenical documents.



It would be more worthy to preach the Word of God, the Love of Christ the

Saviour and the intercession of the Holy Mother, the Virgin Mary.



Respectfull and humbly

Aniss Sowmy

Evangelist Deacon of the

Syrian Orthodox Church of Antioch



Please a Deacon must not be caller reverend cause he is not a priest.