Ignatius Zakka I

Ignatius Zakka I Iwas was the 122nd reigning Syriac Orthodox Patriarch of Antioch and All the East and, as such, Supreme Head of the Universal Syriac Orthodox Church. Also known by his traditional episcopal name, Severios, he was enthroned as patriarch on 14 September 1980 in St. George's Patriarchal Cathedral in Damascus. He succeeded Ignatius Ya`qub III. As is traditional for the head of the church, Mor Severios adopted the name Ignatius.

21 April 1933

Born on the same birth date (21 April 1933): Easley Blackwood Jr. • Edelmiro Amante

Born on the same birth day (21 April): Ahmed Arif • Alistair MacLean • Arianne Hartono • Arthur Rowley • Freddie Dixon • Pat Brown • Sancho VI of Navarre • Virginie Basselot

Born in the same month (April 1933): Anthony Llewellyn • Arkady and Boris Strugatsky • Carol Burnett • Easley Blackwood Jr. • Edelmiro Amante • Elizabeth Montgomery • Feridun Buğeker • Helen McElhone • Ike Pappas • Marquitos (footballer, born 1933) • Paddy Hopkirk • Richard Rose (political scientist) • Rokusuke Ei • Roy Clark • Sakıp Sabancı • Willie Nelson