Maronite Catholic Patriarchal Exarchate of Jordan is a patriarchal exarchate of the
Maronite Church
The Maronite Church is an Eastern Catholic Churches, Eastern Catholic ''sui iuris'' particular church in full communion with the pope and the worldwide Catholic Church, with self-governance under the Code of Canons of the Eastern Churches. Th ...
, immediately subject to the Patriarchate of Antioch of the Maronites. In 2018, there were 1,000 members.
It is currently governed by Archeparch
Moussa El-Hage,
O.A.M.
Territory and statistics
The Exarchate extended its jurisdiction over the Maronite Catholic faithful of Jordan, and it is seated in Amman. It includes two parishes and had 1,000 members in 2018.
History
On May 5, 1985, two years after the International Eucharistic Congress held in Jerusalem, was inaugurated in the Holy Land a Patriarchal Vicariate to meet
Lebanese Maronites
Lebanese Maronite Christians ( ar, المسيحية المارونية في لبنان; syc, ܡܫܝܚܝ̈ܐ ܡܪ̈ܘܢܝܐ ܕܠܒܢܢ) are adherents of the Maronite Church in Lebanon, which is the largest Christian denomination in the countr ...
that lived there until then directly dependent on the Maronite Catholic Archeparchy of Tyre.
The patriarchal exarchate of Jordan was erected on October 5, 1996.
Since its erection it was entrusted to the pastoral care of Archeparch of the
Maronite Catholic Archeparchy of Haifa and the Holy Land
The Archeparchy of Haifa and the Holy Land (in Latin: Archieparchia Ptolemaidensis Maronitarum in the Holy Land) is a branch of the Maronite Church immediately subject to the Patriarch of Antioch of the Maronites. Since 2012, it has been governed ...
, who is its
in persona episcopi
''In persona episcopi'' ( en, In the person of the bishop) is a Latin language, Latin expression used by the Roman Catholic Church to indicate a union of two or more dioceses in which the dioceses are administered by a single bishop but undergo no ...
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Patriarchal Exarchs
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Paul Nabil El-Sayah Paul Nabil El-Sayah (in Arabic: بولس نبيل الصياح, born on 26 December 1939 in Aïn el Kharroubé, Lebanon) is an Archeparch of the Maronite Church and Curial Bishop of the Maronite Catholic Patriarchate of Antioch.
Life
Paul Nabil E ...
(October 5, 1996 - June 6, 2011 appointed archbishop, personally, of the curia of the Patriarchate of Antioch of the Maronites)
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Moussa El-Hage,
O.A.M., (since 16 June 2012)
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References
External links
* http://www.gcatholic.org/dioceses/diocese/jord0.htm
* http://www.catholic-hierarchy.org/diocese/djoma.html
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Lebanese Jordanian
Maronite Catholic patriarchal exarchates
Religious organisations based in Jordan
Catholic Church in Jordan
Christian organizations established in 1996