Our Lady of the Annunciation Church or simply Church of Jabal Webdeh is a

Catholic The Catholic Church, also known as the Roman Catholic Church, is the largest Christian church, with 1.3 billion baptized Catholics worldwide . It is among the world's oldest and largest international institutions, and has played a ...

parish in

Jabal al-Luweibdeh Jabal al-Luweibdeh ( ar, جبل اللويبدة), also known as Jabal al-Weibdeh, is a neighborhood in Downtown Amman, Jordan. History Jabal al-Luweibdeh was founded in the 1920s, shortly after Amman itself was founded in the nearby valley, ...

in the city of

Amman Amman (; ar, عَمَّان, ' ; Ammonite language, Ammonite: 𐤓𐤁𐤕 𐤏𐤌𐤍 ''Rabat ʻAmān'') is the capital and largest city of Jordan, and the country's economic, political, and cultural center. With a population of 4,061,150 a ...

. The parish is Roman (or Latin) rite, under the jurisdiction of the

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(''Patriarcha Hierosolymitanus Latinorum''). The parish celebrated its 50-year parish anniversary in 2012, and was restored for the occasion with funds from the Patriarchate. The Patriarchate was restored by

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in 1847 by the apostolic brief ''Nulla celebrior''.

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Roman Catholic churches in Jordan Roman Catholic churches completed in 1962 Churches in Amman 20th-century Roman Catholic church buildings {{Asia-RC-cathedral-stub

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