Apostolic Exarchate of Gerusalemme (Palestina e Giordania)
Patriarchal exarchate · Syriac Catholic Church · Jerusalem, Israel
Syriac Catholic (Antiochene rite) patriarchal exarchate covering Syriac Catholic faithful in Palestine, Jordan and Israel. Erected as a patriarchal vicariate in 1892 and elevated to a patriarchal exarchate in 1991. Its principal church is the Church of Saint Thomas in Jerusalem.
The see
- Rank
- Patriarchal exarchate
- Tradition
- Syriac Catholic Church
- Erected
- 1892
- Annuario code
- 001000543
The see in figures
- Catholics
- 5,341
- Population
- 2,020
- Extent
- 116,633 km²
- Catholics per km²
- 0.0
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
- Yaacoub Semaan
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 Saint Thomas, 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.
History
Serving Palestine and Jordan, the Syriac Catholic Patriarchal Exarchate of Jerusalem (informally Jerusalem of the Syriacs) is a Patriarchal exarchate, a missionary Eastern Catholic pre-diocesan jurisdiction, of the Syriac Catholic Church, which follows the Antiochian Rite in the Syriac language and Arameic. It depends directly on the Syriac Catholic Patriarch of Antioch, whose see is in Beirut, belongs to no ecclesiastical province, and in Rome answers to the Dicastery for the Eastern Churches. The Church of Saint Thomas in Jerusalem serves as its cathedral episcopal see.
How to reach it
- Chancery
- Vicariat Patriarcal Syrien Catholique, 6 Chaldean Str., P.O. Box 19787, 9119702 Jerusalem
- Telephone
- [02]628.26.57; fax 628.42.17
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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].