SC20378 Elias - Jacobite Priest from Mesopotamia by Preziosi, Amadeo (1816-82); Victoria & Albert Museum, London, UK; (add.info.: The Syriac Orthodox Church of Antioch is an Oriental Orthodox church based in the Eastern Mediterranean and uses the oldest surviving liturgy in Christianity, the Liturgy of St James the Apostle; and the church dates back to the first Christian communities in Antioch established by the apostle St Peter in AD37. Called Jacobite after St James; ); Maltese, out of copyright.