1) Antioch, city, Turkey. The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition. 2001
...Orontes (Asi) River, near the Mediterranean Sea, at the foot of Mt. Silpius. Antioch is the trade center for a region where grains, cotton, grapes, olives, and vegetables...
2) Antioch College. The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition. 2001
...Antioch College, at Yellow Springs, Ohio; coeducational; chartered 1852, opened 1853. Horace Mann, Antioch's first president, envisioned a program stressing the development...
3) Ignatius of Antioch, Saint. The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition. 2001
...Rome to be martyred by the wild beasts of the amphitheater, he wrote the important letters to the churches in Rome and in Asia Minor, and to St. Polycarp. The seven...
4) Flavian of Antioch. The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition. 2001
...Catholic patriarch of Antioch. He succeeded St. Meletius. A rival claimant to the patriarchate, Evagrius, was illegally consecrated, but when Evagrius died Flavian...
5) Antioch, city, United States. The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition.
2001
...United States, city (1990 pop. 62,195), Contra Costa co., W Calif., on the San Joaquin River near the mouth of the Sacramento; inc. 1872. It is a processing and shipping...
6) Bohemond I. The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition. 2001
...Antioch (1099-1111), a leader in the First Crusade (see Crusades); elder son of Robert Guiscard. With his father he fought (1081-85) against the Byzantine emperor...
7) patriarch, in Christian churches. The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition.
2001
...Christian churches, in Christian churches, title of certain exalted bishops, implying authority over a number of other bishops. There were originally three patriarchates:...
8) Antakya. The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition. 2001
...Antakya, see Antioch, Turkey....
9) Nestorianism. The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition. 2001
...Christian heresy that held Jesus to be two distinct persons, closely and inseparably united. In 428, Emperor Theodosius II named an abbot of Antioch, Nestorius (d....
10) Jacobite Church. The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition. 2001
...Christian church of Syria, Iraq, and India, recognizing the Syrian Orthodox patriarch of Antioch as its spiritual head, regarded by Roman Catholics and Eastern Orthodox...
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