Diocese of San Charbel en Buenos Aires
Sancti Sarbelii Bonaëren(sis) Maronitarum
Suffragan eparchy · Latin Church · Buenos Aires, Argentina
Maronite (not Latin) rite eparchy established by Pope John Paul II in 1990 for all Maronite Catholics in Argentina, with its see at St. Maron's Cathedral in Buenos Aires. It has been led by Eparch Habib Chamieh, O.M.M., appointed in 2019.
The see
- Rank
- Suffragan eparchy
- Tradition
- Latin Church
- Erected
- 5 October 1990
- Latin
- Sancti Sarbelii Bonaëren(sis) Maronitarum
- Patron
- Saint Charbel Makhluf
- Annuario code
- 001002879
The see in figures
- Catholics
- 750,000
- Population
- 2,010
- Priests
- 8
- Catholics per priest
- 93,750
- Extent
- 2,780,403 km²
- Catholics per km²
- 0.3
Figures as recorded in the register, from the Annuario Pontificio and the see's own published statements. Shares and ratios are computed from the two figures shown beside them.
The bishop
- Eparch
- Habib Chamieh, O.M.M.
A see whose chair stands empty is recorded as vacant rather than filled with a guess. On what a bishop is, see the bishop.
The cathedral
St. Maron's Cathedral, Buenos Aires stands in Buenos Aires, the church that holds the cathedra from which this see takes its name.
On what a cathedral is, see the cathedral; every see church on earth is gathered at the cathedrals.
The province of Buenos Aires
A suffragan of Archdiocese of Buenos Aires.
The sees of this province:
- Diocese of Avellaneda–LanúsAvellaneda–Lanús
- Archdiocese of Buenos AiresBuenos Aires
- Diocese of Gregorio de LaferrereGregorio de Laferrere
- Diocese of Lomas de ZamoraLomas de Zamora
- Diocese of MorónMorón
- Diocese of QuilmesQuilmes
- Diocese of San IsidroSan Isidro
- Diocese of San JustoSan Justo
- Diocese of San MartínSan Martín
- Diocese of San MiguelSan Miguel
On how the Church is ordered into provinces, see the diocese.
How to reach it
- Chancery
- Eparquía Maronita, Tronador 1464, c1427csd Buenos Aires, Argentina
- Telephone
- [011]4552.0380
This see keeps no website of its own, so its chancery is published here: withholding it would protect nothing and leave a reader with nowhere to go. Where a see publishes its own site, the register sends you there instead.
What is kept by invitation
The record above is published because it is public: what this see is, when it was erected, who holds its chair, and where it stands among its neighbours.
The working record is not. The clergy of the see, and the hours of Mass, confession and adoration in the parishes within it, are kept for members, and a person reads every request.
Sources
This record is compiled from the published statements of the see and the references of the Holy See, among them the Annuario Pontificio. On the method, see the keeping of the record. Whoever finds an error is asked, in charity, to write: [email protected].