Arab Orthodox Movement
The Arab Orthodox Movement (Arabic: الحركة العربية الأرثوذكسية, romanized: Al-Haraka Al-ʿArabiyya Al-ʾUrthūdhuksiyya) is a political and social movement aiming for the Arabization of the Greek Orthodox Patriarchate of Jerusalem and the Antiochian Orthodox Church , which has jurisdiction over the Orthodox communities of Palestine, Egypt, Jordan and Syria, to which most Christians in the region belong. Within the context of rising Arab nationalism in the 19th century, the movement was inspired by the successful precedent of the Arabization of Syria and Lebanon's Antioch Patriarchate in 1899.