Apostolic Exarchate of Gerusalemme e Amman
Patriarchal exarchate · Armenian Catholic Church · Jerusalem, Israel
Armenian Catholic patriarchal exarchate covering Armenian rite faithful in the Holy Land and Jordan, with 2 parishes. Established on 1 October 1991 as the Patriarchal Exarchate of Jerusalem. Its principal church is the Church of Our Lady of Sorrows in Jerusalem.
The see
- Rank
- Patriarchal exarchate
- Tradition
- Armenian Catholic Church
- Erected
- 1 October 1991
- Annuario code
- 001000561
The see in figures
- Catholics
- 500
- Population
- 2,015
- Catholic share
- 24.8%
- Priests
- 2
- Catholics per priest
- 250
- Extent
- 116,633 km²
- Catholics per km²
- 0.0
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
- Patriarchal Exarch
- Narek Naamoyan
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
Church of Our Lady of Sorrows, Jerusalem stands in Jerusalem, 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.
How to reach it
- Chancery
- Via Dolorosa 36, P.O. Box 19546, 9119401 Jerusalem
- Telephone
- [02]628.42.62; fax 627.21.23
- [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].