Ignatius Matthew

Ignatius Matthew (Matta) was the Patriarch of Antioch and head of the Syriac Orthodox Church from 1782 until his death in 1817.

He joined Mor Hananyo and was ordaned a priest and became the abbot of the monsatery.

[2] When that happened, Matthew went and stayed in a village called Qeleth in Tur Abdin.

There, all the metropolitan in Tur-Abdin met and elected Ignatius Matthew a legitimate patriarch for the Syriac Orthodox Church.

When the firman from the Ottoman government arrived approving his election, he was consecrated as a patriarch.