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and resides in Brooklyn, but he is only here upon an extended 

 leave of absence from the diocese. There are also some thirty 

 or forty Syro-Jacobites in the United States ; they are mostly 

 from Mardin, Aleppo and Northern Syria, and have no priest 

 or chapel of their own. 



(3) Coptic Rite. — There is only a handful of Copts in this 

 country — in New York City perhaps a dozen individuals. 

 Oriental theatrical pieces, in which an Eastern setting is re- 

 quired, has attracted some of them thither, principally from 

 Egypt. They have no priest, either Catholic or Orthodox, and 

 no place of worship. 



