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MetropolitanMor Athanasius Yeshue Samuel (Arabic:صموئيل، أثناسيوس يشوع; 1909–1995), more often referred to asMor Samuel, was a The First Metropolitan and Archbishop of theSyriac Orthodox Church of Antioch in the United States and Canada, theMetropolitan of Jerusalem of theSyriac Orthodox Church as well as a central figure in the discovery of theDead Sea scrolls.
In 1947, while Metropolitan of Jerusalem of theSyriac Orthodox Church of Antioch, Mor Samuel received news that some ancient texts had been discovered. Samuel arranged to see the scrolls. After examining them, and suspecting that they were indeed very old, Mor Samuel expressed an interest in purchasing them. All four scrolls that had been then discovered would find their way into his possession, including the now famousIsaiah Scroll, theCommunity Rule, theHabakkuk Peshar, and theGenesis Apocryphon. The scrolls were sold to Mor Samuel by Kando, an antiquities dealer.
Following the end of the British mandate over Palestine and Transjordan and the outbreak of hostilities between Arabs and Jews, Mor Samuel relocated to the United States in 1949, and played a major role in the life of theSyriac Orthodox Church in North America. From 1952, he served as Patriarchal Vicar to the United States and Canada, and from 1957, as Archbishop of the newly created Archdiocese of the United States and Canada.
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