Orientalisch Westfalen

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I find this very cool: A Dominican monastery in Warburg that was going to be turned into a hotel(!) was instead sold to the Syriac Orthodox Church and is now the residence for the bishop of the German diocese. I'm assuming most members of the diocese are nominally Turkish immigrants despite being Christian, but they could be from neighbouring countries as well, since the Arab population of Germany is a non-trivial three-hundred thousand or so. They could even be Aramaic speakers, like some of the Assyrians in Chicago.

Am I the only one who finds it curious that none of the references I've found to the church's namesake, Jacob of Sarug/Serugh, mention how he got that appellation? And that, furthermore, I can't find an entry for "Sarug" or "Serugh" in any gazatteer?