Suffragan eparchy Beirut, Lebanon
Eparchy of Bairut, Beirut
Beryten(sis) Syrorum
Syriac Catholic Church
Syriac Catholic eparchy of Beirut, Lebanon, established in 1819. It is a patriarchal eparchy administered directly by the Syriac Catholic Patriarch of Antioch as its ordinary, currently Patriarch Ignatius Joseph III Younan.
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- Established
- 1819
- Catholics
- 32,000
- Priests
- 13
- Territory
- 10,452 km²
Parishes and churches
1 listed church in our records. Open a parish for Mass times, confession, directions and sources where recorded.
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The bishop
- Patriarch
- His Beatitude Ignatius Joseph III Younan
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The cathedral
Cathedral of St. George (Syriac Catholic), Beirut stands in Beirut, the church that holds the cathedra from which this see takes its name.
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History
The Syriac Catholic Patriarchal Eparchy of Beirut is an eparchy of the Syriac Catholic Church in Lebanon. Within it, in the episcopal see of Beirut, the capital of Lebanon, stands the cathedra of the Syriac Catholic Patriarch of Antioch.