Maronite Catholic Patriarchate of Antioch

Maronite Catholic Patriarchate of Antioch
Maronite Catholic Patriarchate of Antioch
Catholic
	Patriarch Béchara-Raï
	Coat of arms
	Incumbent:; Bechara Boutros al-Rahi; Installed 25 March 2011
Location
Country	Lebanon
Information
Sui iuris church	Maronite
Rite	West Syro-Antiochene Rite
Established	7th century
Current leadership
Pope	Francis
Patriarch	Bechara Boutros al-Rahi, OMM
Auxiliary Bishops	Joseph Nafaa ; Hanna Alwan, MLM; Paul Abdel Sater; Antoine Nabil Andari
Bishops emeritus	Samir Mazloum; Guy-Paul Noujaim ; Paul Nabil El-Sayah
Website
	Official site

The Maronite Catholic Patriarchate of Antioch (in Latin: Patriarchatus Antiochenus Maronitarum) is the seat of the Patriarch of the Maronite Church. It is currently governed by the Patriarch Cardinal Bechara Boutros al-Rahi, OMM.

Maronite Patriarch's Summer Residence in Dimane

The Maronite Church is one of several churches that lay claim to be the canonical incumbent of the ancient see of St. Peter and St. Paul in Antioch. The Syriac Catholic Church, and the Melkite Greek Catholic Church make the same claim, all of them Eastern Catholic Churches in full communion with the Holy See. The three mutually recognize each other as holding authentic patriarchates. The Greek Orthodox Church of Antioch and the Oriental Orthodox Syriac Orthodox Church claim patriarchates as well. Moreover, the Roman Catholic Church appointed titular Latin Rite patriarchs for many centuries, until the office was left vacant in 1953 and abolished in 1964 and all claims renounced.

Territory

The Maronite Patriarchate extends its jurisdiction over all the Maronite faithful wherever they dwell.

The seat of the patriarchate is Bkerké in Keserwan District in Lebanon. Dimane (in Bsharri District) is the summer residence of the Patriarch. The Maronite Catholic Eparchy of Joubbé, Sarba and Jounieh is the eparchy of Maronite patriarch.

From Patriarchate of Antioch of the Maronites also depend directly:[1]

Maronite Catholic Patriarchal Exarchate of Jerusalem and Palestine, erected on October 5, 1996, based in Jerusalem; in 2014 they were 504 Catholics distributed in three parishes;
Maronite Catholic Patriarchal Exarchate of Jordan, erected on October 5, 1996, based in Amman; in 2014 they were 1,000 Catholics in one parish.

The Maronite Patriarch is a member by right of the Council of Catholic Patriarchs of the East.

Patriarchs

See List of Maronite Patriarchs[2]

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Sources

Pius Bonifacius Gams, Series episcoporum Ecclesiae Catholicae, Leipzig 1931, pp. 457–458.
Konrad Eubel, Hierarchia Catholica Medii Aevi, vol. 3, pp. 235–236; vol. 4, pp. 86–87; vol. 5, p. 89; vol. 6, p. 87.

References

[Annuario pontificio 2010, p. 5.]
Giuseppe Simone Assemani, Joannes Notain Darauni. "Series chronologica patriarcharum Antiochiae". ex Typographia polyglotta, 1881 – via Internet Archive.

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[1] [Annuario pontificio 2010, p. 5.]

[2] Giuseppe Simone Assemani, Joannes Notain Darauni. "Series chronologica patriarcharum Antiochiae". ex Typographia polyglotta, 1881 – via Internet Archive.