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Patriarchal exarchate Jerusalem, Israel

Apostolic Exarchate of Gerusalemme (Palestina e Giordania)

Syriac Catholic Church

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.

On the map

Esri
The address the register holds for Church of Saint Thomas, Jerusalem, in Jerusalem, Israel.

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Established
1892
Catholics
5,341
Territory
116,633 km²

Parishes and churches

3 listed churches in our records. Open a parish for Mass times, confession, directions and sources where recorded.

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The bishop

Patriarchal Exarch
Yaacoub Semaan

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The cathedral

Church of Saint Thomas, Jerusalem stands in Jerusalem, the church that holds the cathedra from which this see takes its name.

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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.