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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 List of Christian denominations by number of members, largest Christian church, with 1.27 to 1.41 billion baptized Catholics Catholic Church by country, worldwid ...
parish in
Jabal al-Luweibdeh Jabal al-Luweibdeh (), 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, eventually merging with it, ...
in the city of
Amman Amman ( , ; , ) is the capital and the largest city of Jordan, and the country's economic, political, and cultural center. With a population of four million as of 2021, Amman is Jordan's primate city and is the largest city in the Levant ...
. The parish is Roman (or Latin) rite, under the jurisdiction of the
Latin Patriarchate of Jerusalem The Latin Patriarchate of Jerusalem () is the Latin Catholic ecclesiastical patriarchate in Jerusalem, officially seated in the Church of the Holy Sepulchre. The Latin Patriarch of Jerusalem is the archbishop of Latin Church Catholics of th ...
(''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
Pope Pius IX Pope Pius IX (; born Giovanni Maria Battista Pietro Pellegrino Isidoro Mastai-Ferretti; 13 May 1792 – 7 February 1878) was head of the Catholic Church from 1846 to 1878. His reign of nearly 32 years is the longest verified of any pope in hist ...
in 1847 by the
apostolic brief An apostolic constitution () is the most solemn form of legislation issued by the Pope.New Commentary on the Code of Canon Law, pg. 57, footnote 36. By their nature, apostolic constitutions are addressed to the public. Generic constitutions use ...
''Nulla celebrior''.


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Roman Catholicism in Jordan The Catholic Church in Jordan is part of the worldwide Catholic Church, under the spiritual leadership of the Pope in Rome. In 2023, Christians made up 2.1% of Jordan's population. Of these half, or 1.06% of the country's population were Catholi ...


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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