Mafriano

thumb|right|upright=0.9|Baselios Joseph I, the current Maphrian of the East in the [[Syriac Orthodox Church]] The Maphrian ( or maphryono), is the second-highest rank in the ecclesiastical hierarchy of the Syriac Orthodox Church, right below that of patriarch. The office of a maphrian is a maphrianate. There have been three maphrianates in the history of the Syriac Orthodox Church and one, briefly, in the Syriac Catholic Church.