Eparchy of Le Caire
Cahiren(sis) Syrorum
Eparchy of the patriarchate · Syrian · Le Caire, Egypt
Syriac Catholic eparchy erected on 3 December 1965, serving the small Syriac Catholic community of Egypt with churches in Cairo and Alexandria. It is immediately subject to the Syriac Catholic Patriarch of Antioch and not part of any ecclesiastical province. Its seat is the Cathedral of Our Lady of the Rosary in Cairo; Eparch Ephrem Warde was appointed on 12 May 2022.
The see
- Rank
- Eparchy of the patriarchate
- Tradition
- Syrian
- Erected
- 3 December 1965
- Latin
- Cahiren(sis) Syrorum
- Annuario code
- 001001974
The see in figures
- Catholics
- 1,520
- Population
- 1,520
- Catholic share
- 100.0%
- Priests
- 4
- Catholics per priest
- 380
- Extent
- 1,520 km²
- Catholics per km²
- 1.0
of the people living within its bounds
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
- Ephrem Warde
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
Cathedral of Our Lady of the Rosary, Cairo stands in Le Caire, 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.
History
Known informally as Cairo of the Syriacs, the Syriac Catholic Eparchy of Cairo is an ecclesiastical territory of the Syriac Catholic Church in Egypt. It answers immediately to the Syriac Catholic Patriarch of Antioch while belonging to neither his nor any other ecclesiastical province. The Cathedral of Our Lady of the Rosary, in the episcopal see of Cairo, serves as its cathedral.
How to reach it
- Chancery
- Evêché Syrien Catholique, 46 Rue Daher, 11271 Le Caire, Égypte
- Telephone
- [02]2590.1234; 2592.3932
- [email protected]
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].