Maronite Church
Quick Facts
- Tradition
- Christianity · Catholic · Eastern
- Current leader
- Patriarch Bechara Boutros al-Rahi
- Leader since
- March 24th 2011
- Days in office
- –
- Members
- 3,498,707Wikipedia: Maronite Church [n.d.]
Intro
The Maronite Church is an Eastern Catholic church rooted in the Syriac tradition, centered in Lebanon, and led by the Maronite Patriarch while remaining in full communion with the pope.
Structure
The head of the Maronite Church is the Patriarch of Antioch and the Whole Levant, who is elected by the Maronite bishops and resides in Bkerke, near Jounieh, north of Beirut, with a summer residence in Dimane.
Wikipedia describes the Maronite Church as having twenty-eight eparchies and patriarchal vicariates across the Middle East and the wider diaspora. Below is a regional list of those jurisdictions.
| Patriarchate of Antioch |
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| Maronite Catholic Patriarchate of Antioch, seated at Bkerke, Lebanon 🇱🇧 |
| Middle East: Jurisdictions Immediately Subject to the Patriarch |
| Maronite Catholic Archeparchy of Antelias, Lebanon 🇱🇧 |
| Maronite Catholic Eparchy of Baalbek-Deir El Ahmar, Lebanon 🇱🇧 |
| Maronite Catholic Eparchy of Batroun, Lebanon 🇱🇧 |
| Maronite Catholic Archeparchy of Beirut, Lebanon 🇱🇧 |
| Maronite Catholic Eparchy of Jbeil, Lebanon 🇱🇧 |
| Maronite Catholic Eparchy of Joubbe, Sarba and Jounieh, Lebanon 🇱🇧 (sole suffragan of the Patriarch of Antioch) |
| Maronite Catholic Eparchy of Sidon, Lebanon 🇱🇧 |
| Maronite Catholic Archeparchy of Tripoli, Lebanon 🇱🇧 |
| Maronite Catholic Archeparchy of Tyre, Lebanon 🇱🇧 |
| Maronite Catholic Eparchy of Zahleh, Lebanon 🇱🇧 |
| Maronite Catholic Archeparchy of Haifa and the Holy Land, Israel 🇮🇱 |
| Maronite Catholic Patriarchal Exarchate of Jerusalem and Palestine 🇵🇸 |
| Maronite Catholic Patriarchal Exarchate of Jordan 🇯🇴 |
| Maronite Catholic Archeparchy of Damascus, Syria 🇸🇾 |
| Maronite Catholic Archeparchy of Aleppo, Syria 🇸🇾 |
| Maronite Catholic Eparchy of Latakia, Syria 🇸🇾 |
| Maronite Catholic Archeparchy of Cyprus, Nicosia, Cyprus 🇨🇾 |
| Maronite Catholic Eparchy of Cairo, Egypt 🇪🇬 |
| Elsewhere: Exempt and Immediately Subject to the Holy See |
| Maronite Catholic Eparchy of Annunciation of Ibadan, Nigeria 🇳🇬 |
| Maronite Catholic Apostolic Exarchate of Colombia 🇨🇴 |
| Elsewhere: Subject to the Synod in Liturgical and Particular Law, Otherwise Immediately Subject to the Holy See |
| Maronite Catholic Eparchy of Our Lady of Lebanon of Paris, France 🇫🇷 |
| Maronite Catholic Eparchy of Saint Maron of Montreal, Canada 🇨🇦 |
| Maronite Catholic Eparchy of Our Lady of Lebanon of Los Angeles, United States 🇺🇸 |
| Maronite Catholic Eparchy of Saint Maron of Brooklyn, United States 🇺🇸 |
| Maronite Catholic Eparchy of Our Lady of the Martyrs of Lebanon in Mexico, Mexico 🇲🇽 |
| Maronite Catholic Eparchy of Saint Maron of Sydney, Australia 🇦🇺 |
| Elsewhere: Suffragan Eparchies in Latin Metropolitan Provinces |
| Maronite Catholic Eparchy of San Charbel in Buenos Aires, Argentina 🇦🇷 |
| Maronite Catholic Eparchy of Our Lady of Lebanon of Sao Paulo, Brazil 🇧🇷 |
Religious Orders
Major religious institutes listed in the same source include:
- Lebanese Maronite Order
- Antonin Maronite Order
- Mariamite Maronite Order
- Congregation of Maronite Lebanese Missionaries
Source(s)
Source: Image from Wikimedia Commons by Unknown author. Licensed under CC BY 3.0.
Source: Intro adapted from the Wikipedia article "Maronite Church". Licensed under CC BY-SA 4.0.
Source: Structure section adapted from the Wikipedia article "Maronite Church". Licensed under CC BY-SA 4.0.