The Syriac Catholic Patriarchal Dependency of Sudan and South Sudan is missionary pre-diocesan jurisdiction of the
Eastern Catholic Syriac Catholic Church
The Syriac Catholic Church ( syc, ܥܕܬܐ ܣܘܪܝܝܬܐ ܩܬܘܠܝܩܝܬܐ, ʿĪṯo Suryayṯo Qaṯolīqayṯo, ar, الكنيسة السريانية الكاثوليكية) is an Eastern Catholic Churches, Eastern Catholic Christianity ...
(''sui iuris'',
Antiochian Rite in
Syriac language
The Syriac language (; syc, / '), also known as Syriac Aramaic (''Syrian Aramaic'', ''Syro-Aramaic'') and Classical Syriac ܠܫܢܐ ܥܬܝܩܐ (in its literary and liturgical form), is an Aramaic language, Aramaic dialect that emerged during ...
) covering
Sudan
Sudan ( or ; ar, السودان, as-Sūdān, officially the Republic of the Sudan ( ar, جمهورية السودان, link=no, Jumhūriyyat as-Sūdān), is a country in Northeast Africa. It shares borders with the Central African Republic t ...
and
South Sudan.
It is immediately subject to the
Syriac Catholic Patriarch of Antioch (in
Beirut,
Lebanon), not part of any
ecclesiastical province.
As a mission of very low rank, roughly comparable to a Latin
Mission sui iuris, it has no
cathedral see nor an episcopal ordinary of its own.
So far, the office of superior, styled
Protosyncellus (normally a function in an episcopal curia), has been vested in the Syriac Catholic Eparch of
Cairo, in
Egypt.
History
* Established in 1997 as Territory Dependent on the Patriarch of
Sudan
Sudan ( or ; ar, السودان, as-Sūdān, officially the Republic of the Sudan ( ar, جمهورية السودان, link=no, Jumhūriyyat as-Sūdān), is a country in Northeast Africa. It shares borders with the Central African Republic t ...
, on territory formerly not covered by the particular church.
* Renamed in 2013 as Territory Dependent on the Patriarch of Sudan and
South Sudan, after the latter country seceded from the first.
Ordinaries
''(all
West Syriac Rite)
;''Protosyncellus of Sudan''
#
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 ...
(1997 – 2013 ''see below''), while Eparch of
Cairo of the Syrians
The Syriac Catholic Eparchy of Cairo (informally Cairo of the Syriacs) is a Syriac Catholic Church ecclesiastical territory or eparchy of the Catholic Church in Egypt. It is immediately exempt to the Syriac Catholic Patriarch of Antioch, though ...
(Egypt) (Jun 24, 1995 – Apr 9, 2020)
;''Protosyncelli of Sudan and South Sudan''
#
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 ...
(''see above'' 2013 – Apr 9, 2020), while Eparch of
Cairo of the Syrians
The Syriac Catholic Eparchy of Cairo (informally Cairo of the Syriacs) is a Syriac Catholic Church ecclesiastical territory or eparchy of the Catholic Church in Egypt. It is immediately exempt to the Syriac Catholic Patriarch of Antioch, though ...
(Egypt) (Jun 24, 1995, – Apr 9, 2020)
# Bishop
Camil Afram Antoine Semaan (Apr 15, 2020 – May 12, 2022)
# Bishop Élie Joseph Warde (May 12, 2022 - )
Source and External links
*
elf-published sourcebr>
Dalle Chiese Orientali, 12.05.2022(in Italian)
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Eastern Catholic dioceses in Africa
Syriac Catholic dioceses
Catholic Church in Sudan