Melkite Greek Catholic Apostolic Exarchate of Argentina is an Apostolic Exarchate (missionary pre-diocesan jurisdiction) of the

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covering all of Argentina for its

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. It is immediately subject to the Melkite Catholic Patriarchate of Antioch. It is currently governed by Bishop Ibrahim Salameh, SMSP.

Territory and statistics

Apostolic Exarchate to the Melkites has jurisdiction over all the faithful of the Melkite Greek Catholic Church in Argentina. Its cathedral episcopal see is the Cathedral of Saint George in the city of

Córdoba, Argentina Córdoba () is a city in central Argentina, in the foothills of the Punilla Valley, Sierras Chicas on the Primero River, Suquía River, about northwest of Buenos Aires. It is the capital of Córdoba Province, Argentina, Córdoba Province a ...

. In 2010 there were 3000 baptized.

Parishes

The territory is divided into three parishes: * Saint George Cathedral, Cordoba * Saint George Church, Rosario * Our Lady of Perpetual Help Church, Buenos Aires.

History

In the late of the 19th century began the first Melkite Christians' immigration to Argentina. Two major waves of immigration took place between 1910 and 1930 and from 1949 to 1950. The majority of immigrants came from Lebanon and

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and settled mostly in Rosario, Buenos Aires and Córdoba. The Apostolic Exarchate was erected on 21 March 2002 with the papal bull ''Quandoquidem saeculorum''pgc-lb.org
/ref> of Pope John Paul II.

Ordinaries

; ''Apostolic Exarchs of Argentina'' *

Georges Nicholas Haddad Georges Nicolas Haddad, SMSP (born 24 June 1957 in Beirut, Lebanon) is the current bishop of the Melkite Greek Catholic Archeparchy of Baniyas, Lebanon. Ecclesiastical career Haddad was ordained a priest on August 28, 1983 as a member of the Melki ...

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(SMSP) (20 April 2002 – 19 December 2005 resigned), Titular Bishop of

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(20 April 2002 – 17 October 2006), later Apostolic Administrator of Akka of the Greek-Melkites (Israel) (18 March 2003 – 7 February 2006), Archeparch of

Bāniyās of the Greek-Melkites Melkite Greek Catholic Archeparchy of Baniyas (in Latin: Archeparchy Caesariensis or Paneadensis) is a diocese of the Melkite Greek Catholic Church suffragan of the Melkite Greek Catholic Archeparchy of Tyre. In 2009 there were 2,500 baptized. It i ...

(Lebanon) (since 17 October 2006 – ...) *

Jean-Abdo Arbach Jean-Abdo Arbach, B.C., (born on June 28, 1952, in Yabroud, Syria) is the current archeparch of the Melkite Greek Catholic Archeparchy of Homs, Hama and Yabroud. Life In 1966 Jean-Abdo Arbach began his studies at the seminary and lived in the adj ...

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(B.C.) (17 October 2006 – 23 June 2012), Titular Bishop of

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(17 October 2006 – 11 November 2006), Titular Bishop of

Palmyra of the Greek-Melkites Palmyra (; Palmyrene: () ''Tadmor''; ar, تَدْمُر ''Tadmur'') is an ancient city in present-day Homs Governorate, Syria. Archaeological finds date back to the Neolithic period, and documents first mention the city in the early second ...

(11 November 2006 – 23 June 2012); later Metropolitan Archbishop of Homs of the Greek-Melkites (Syria) (23 June 2012 – ...) * Ibrahim Salameh, SMSP, (since 15 August 2013 – ...), Titular Bishop of

Sources

* Annuario Pontificio, Libreria Editrice Vaticana, Città del Vaticano, 2003, .

References

External links

Gcatholic.org

Aicaold.com.ar

Pgc-lb.org

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