[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.

The foundation stones were laid in 2000 by Patriarch Ignatius Moses I Daoud, and the church was completed in 2002.

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] Media related to St. Toma Syriac Cathedral (Farmington Hills, Michigan) at Wikimedia Commons