Syrian Catholic Patriarchal Exarchate of Lebanon

The Syrian Catholic Patriarchal Exarchate of Lebanon was a short-lived 20th-century jurisdiction of the Eastern Catholic Syrian Catholic Church (Antiochian Rite in Syriac language) in the Patriarch's own host country, Lebanon.

History

It was established in ?1991 as a Patriarchal Exarchate of the Patriarch in his own see Antioch's Lebanese host city, Beirut.

It was suppressed in 1997, its territory again being covered by the particular church's Syrian Catholic Patriarchate of Antioch and its own Metropolitanate in its see.

Episcopal Ordinaries

Patriarchal Vicars of Lebanon of the Syrians

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