The Melkite Greek Catholic Patriarchal Dependent Territory of Jerusalem (

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: ''Hierosolymitana Melchitarum'') is a branch of the

Melkite Greek Catholic Church el, Μελχιτική Ελληνική Καθολική Εκκλησία , image = Melkite Greek Catholic Church, Damascus, Syria.jpg , imagewidth = 200px , alt = , caption = , abbreviatio ...

immediately subject to the Patriarch of Antioch of the Melkites.

Yasser Ayyash Yasser Ayyash (born December 4, 1955, in Shatana in Irbid, Jordan) is a former archbishop of the Melkite Greek Catholic Archeparchy of Petra and Philadelphia in Amman and the current Melkite Greek Catholic Patriarchal Archeparchy of Jerusalem. Pr ...

is the current

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of the Patriarch

Youssef Absi Youssef Absi ''Società dei Missionari di San Paolo'' – Missionary Society of St. Paul (Melkite Greek); se ( ar, يوسف عبسي ; la, Iosephus Absi; born June 20, 1946, in Damascus, Syria) is the current patriarch of the Melkite Greek Catho ...

References

External links

* http://www.pgc-lb.org/fre/melkite_greek_catholic_church/Jerusalem-Sieges-Patriarcaux {{Authority control Melkite Greek Catholic eparchies Melkite Greek Catholic Church in Israel Eastern Catholicism in the State of Palestine Catholic Church in Jerusalem