The Cathedral of Our Lady of the Dormition ( ar, كَاتِدْرَائِيَّةُ سَيِّدَةِ النِّيَاحِ لِلرُّومِ الْمَلَكِيِّينَ فِي دِمَشْقَ, Kātidrāʾīyat Sayyidat an-Niyāḥ li r-Rūm al-Malakīyīn fī Dimašq), also called the Melkite Greek Catholic Patriarchal Cathedral of the Dormition of Our Lady, is the cathedral of the
Melkite Greek Catholic Church
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in the city of
Damascus
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Syria
Syria ( ar, سُورِيَا or سُورِيَة, translit=Sūriyā), officially the Syrian Arab Republic ( ar, الجمهورية العربية السورية, al-Jumhūrīyah al-ʻArabīyah as-Sūrīyah), is a Western Asian country loc ...
. It is the seat of the Greek-Melkite Archeparchy of Damascus (
Latin
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: ''Archieparchia Damascena Graecorum Melkitarum'') dependent on the
Melkite Catholic Patriarchate of Antioch, which includes about 150,000 baptized adherents and twenty parishes with fifty priests. Its faithful, assigned from the 18th century to the
Holy See
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in
Rome
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, employ the
Arabic language
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and the
Byzantine rite
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.
The Archbishop Vicar (or ''Eparca'') starting in 2006 was
Youssef Absi, former
Superior General
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of the
Society of Missionaries of St. Paul. On June 21, 2017, he was elected as the
Melkite Greek Patriarch.
The cathedral is dedicated to the
Dormition of the Virgin, the
Eastern Christian "counterpart" to the
Latin Church
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doctrine of the
assumption of Mary
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.
See also
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Catholic Church in Syria
The Catholic Church in Syria is part of the worldwide Catholic Church, under the spiritual leadership of the Pope in Rome.
There are 368,000 Catholics in Syria (and its refugee diaspora), approximately 2% of the total population. The Catholics of ...
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Our Lady (disambiguation) Our Lady often refers to:
* Mary, mother of Jesus
* Veneration of Mary in the Catholic Church
Our Lady may also refer to:
Titles of Mary
A number of specific Marian Apparitions, icons, titles, or Marian shrines such as:
See also the :Titles o ...
References
External links
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www.gcatholic.org
Eastern Catholic cathedrals in Syria
Cathedrals in Damascus
Melkite Greek Catholic cathedrals
Melkite Greek Catholic Church in Syria
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