Maronite Catholic Patriarchate of Antioch

Patriarchate of Antioch (Maronite) Patriarchatus Antiochenus Maronitarum
Maronite Catholic Patriarchal residence in Bkerké
Location
Country	Lebanon
Information
Sui iuris church	Maronite
Rite	West Syro-Antiochene Rite
Established	VII century
Current leadership
Pope	Francis
Patriarch	Bechara Boutros al-Rahi, OMM
Auxiliary Bishops	Joseph Nafaa Hanna Alwan, MLM Paul Abdel Sater Antoine Nabil Andari
Emeritus Bishops	Nasrallah Boutros Sfeir Roland Aboujaoudé Samir Mazloum Guy-Paul Noujaim Paul Nabil El-Sayah
Website
www.bkerke.org

Maronite Patriarch's Summer Residence in Dimane

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.

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]

See also

• Patriarch of Antioch
• Maronite Church

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

1. [Annuario pontificio 2010, p. 5.]
2. archive.org, Giuseppe Simone Assemani, Series chronologica patriarcharum Antiochiae, Roma 1881.

External links

• http://www.gcatholic.org/dioceses/diocese/anti0.htm
• http://www.catholic-hierarchy.org/diocese/danma.html
• http://www.kobayat.org/data/maronites/patriarchs.htm
• http://www.bkerki.org/

Coordinates: 33°58′05″N 35°38′01″E / 33.9681°N 35.6336°E