The Our Lady of Lebanon Procathedral ( es, Procatedral de Nuestra Señora del Líbano ) also called Catholic Maronite Cathedral of Bogotá or Church of Our Lady of Lebanon And alternatively Church of Santa Clara de Assís (''Church of St. Clare of Assisi'') is the name that receives a temple that belongs to the Catholic Church that is located in the Carrera 8A N ° 98–31 to the north of the city of

Bogotá Bogotá (, also , , ), officially Bogotá, Distrito Capital, abbreviated Bogotá, D.C., and formerly known as Santa Fe de Bogotá (; ) during the Spanish period and between 1991 and 2000, is the capital city of Colombia, and one of the larges ...

the capital of the South American country of

Colombia Colombia (, ; ), officially the Republic of Colombia, is a country in South America with insular regions in North America—near Nicaragua's Caribbean coast—as well as in the Pacific Ocean. The Colombian mainland is bordered by the Car ...

. The congregation uses the Maronite rite in full communion with the Holy See in Rome. The church is the procathedral or temporary headquarters of the Catholic Maronite Apostolic Exarch of Colombia (''Exarchatus Apostolicus Columbiae'') which uses a church ceded by the Latin rite Archdiocese of Bogotá and was created by Pope Francis on January 20, 2016 to attend to the needs Religious of the Catholic community Maronite in Colombia that until now had to attend other Catholic churches of Roman or Latin rite. The temple is attended by Father Fadi Abou Chebel of the Maronite Order Mariamita (''Ordo Maronita Beatae Mariae Virginis'').

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