The Syriac Catholic Eparchy of Cairo (informally Cairo of the Syriacs) is a
Syriac Catholic Church ecclesiastical territory or
eparchy
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of the
Catholic Church
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in
Egypt
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. It is
immediately exempt to the
Syriac Catholic Patriarch of Antioch, though not part of his or any other
ecclesiastical province
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.
Its
cathedral
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is the Cathedral of Our Lady of the Rosary in the
episcopal see of
Cairo
Cairo ( ; ar, القاهرة, al-Qāhirah, ) is the Capital city, capital of Egypt and its largest city, home to 10 million people. It is also part of the List of urban agglomerations in Africa, largest urban agglomeration in Africa, List of ...
.
History
The Eparchy of Cairo was established on 3 December 1965 on territory previously without a Syriac Catholic
ordinary or territory.
Ordinaries
;''Eparchs (Bishops) of Cairo
* Basile Pierre Habra (1963.07.06 – retired 1965.12.03), previously
Titular Bishop
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By definition, a bishop is an "overseer" of a community of the faithful, so when a priest is ordained a bishop, the tradition of the Catholic, Eastern Orthodox ...
of
Batnæ of the Syriacs Batnae (or Batnæ) may refer to :
* the Ancient city and former bishopric is Osroene, now Suruç Suruç (, ku, Pirsûs, script=Latn, ''Sruḡ'') is a rural district and city of Şanlıurfa Province of Turkey, on a plain near the Syrian border s ...
(1963.05.01 – 1963.07.06)
*
Basile Moussa Daoud (1977.07.22 – 1994.07.01), later Metropolitan Archbishop of
Homs of the Syriacs
The Syriac Catholic Archeparchy of Homs(-Hama-Nabk) is a nominally Metropolitan Archeparchy (Eastern Catholic archdiocese) of the Syriac Catholic Church ''sui iuris'' (Antiochian Rite in Syriac language) in Syria. It has no suffragans. Its seat ...
(Syria) (
994.07.011994.07.06 – 1998.10.13),
Patriarch of Antioch of the Syriacs (Lebanon) (
998.10.131998.10.20 – 2001.01.08), President of Synod of the Syriac Catholic Church (1998.10.20 – 2001.01.08), Prefect of
Congregation for the Oriental Churches
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(2000.11.25 – 2007.06.09),
Grand Chancellor of
Pontifical Oriental Institute
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(2000.11.25 – 2007.06.09), emeritate as
Patriarch ad personam
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(2001.01.08 – 2012.04.07), created
Cardinal-Patriarch (2001.02.21 – 2012.04.07)
*
Clément-Joseph Hannouche
Clément-Joseph Hannouche (27 March 1950 – 9 April 2020) was an Egyptian Syriac Catholic hiearch, Bishop of Cairo since 1995.
Hannouche was born in Egypt
Egypt ( ar, مصر , ), officially the Arab Republic of Egypt, is a transcontin ...
(1995.06.24 – 2020.04.09), also
Protosyncellus
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of
Sudan and South Sudan (1997 – 2020.04.09)
*Bishop
Yacoub Camil Afram Antoine Semaan, Patriarchal Administrator of Cairo, Egypt (15 April, 2020 - Present), Patriarchal Exarch of Jerusalem and Patriarchal Administrator of Sudan and South Sudan.
List of Churches
There are three churches in Cairo and Alexandria
* Cathedral of Our Lady of the Rosary in
Cairo
Cairo ( ; ar, القاهرة, al-Qāhirah, ) is the Capital city, capital of Egypt and its largest city, home to 10 million people. It is also part of the List of urban agglomerations in Africa, largest urban agglomeration in Africa, List of ...
* St. Catherine's Church - Heliopolis
* Church of the Heart of Jesus - Alexandria
See also
*
Dioceses of the Syriac Catholic Church The Syriac Catholic Church, established in the second half of the 17th century as an Eastern Catholic offshoot of the Syriac Orthodox Church, had around a dozen dioceses in the eastern provinces of the Ottoman Empire in the 18th and 19th centuries ...
*
List of cathedrals in Egypt
*
Syriac Catholic Patriarchal Dependency of Sudan and South Sudan
*
Syriac Catholic Patriarchal Exarchate of Jerusalem
Source and External links
GCatholic with incumbent biography links
References
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Eastern Catholic dioceses in Africa
Syriac Catholic Church