Ignatius George V was the Patriarch of Antioch and head of the Syriac Orthodox Church from 1818 until his death in 1836.
[1] George was born at Aleppo in the 18th century and was the son of Makdasi Yousef Sayar Al-Halabi.
We don't have much information about his early life except that he joined Mor Hananyo and was ordained a Metropolitan of Damascus by Ignatius Matthew and was given the name Gregorius.
[2] In March 1819, he travelled to Mor Hananyo and was officially consecrated as a Patriarch for the Syriac Orthodox Church by the metropolitans who gathered at the monastery.
[2] In 1824, he sent Metropolitan Athanasius Abdulassih to visit the Syriac Orthodox Churhc in India along with two monks, Issac and Abdulahad.