- The Colloquium is under the patronage of His Beatitude Gregory III,
Melkite Patriarch of Antioch and All the East,
of Alexandria and of Jerusalem. - The Colloquium is funded in large part by a generous grant from the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada (SSHRCC): Aid to Research Workshops and Conferences in Canada.
- Rassemblement des Chrétiens du Moyen-Orient / Alliance of Middle-Eastern Christians
and its representative, Mrs. Nadia Chahine - The Faculty of Religious Studies, McGill University
and its Dean, Professor B. Barry Levy - Christ Church Cathedral,
Anglican Diocese of Montreal, and its Dean,
the Very Reverend Michael J. Pitts - The Montreal Diocesan Theological College and its principal, the Reverend Dr. John Simons
- His Excellency, Jamil Sakr, Ambassador of Syrian Arab Republic to Canada
- Mr. Fares M. Attar, Honorary General Consul, Syrian Arab Republic (Montreal)
- Mr. Sam Hamad, Deputy for Louis-Hébert, National Assembly of Quebec
- The Québec Ministry of Immigration and Cultural Communities
- Professor Christopher Manfredi, Dean of the Faculty of Arts, McGill University
- Musée des beaux-arts, Montréal, Quebec
- Université de Montréal
- Concordia University, Montréal
- An anonymous donation