Archeparchy of Tripoli del Libano, Tarabulus
Tripolitan(us) Maronitarum
Archeparchy of the patriarchate · Maronite Church · Tripoli del Libano, Lebanon
Maronite Catholic archeparchy of Tripoli in northern Lebanon, canonically erected by the Maronite Synod of Mount Lebanon in 1736 and elevated to archeparchy rank by Pope Paul VI on 5 September 1965. It is immediately subject to the Maronite Patriarch of Antioch and its cathedral is Saint Michael Cathedral in Tripoli.
The see
- Rank
- Archeparchy of the patriarchate
- Tradition
- Maronite Church
- Erected
- 1736
- Latin
- Tripolitan(us) Maronitarum
- Annuario code
- 001003278
The see in figures
- Catholics
- 147,800
- Priests
- 170
- Catholics per priest
- 869
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
- Archbishop
- Youssef Soueif
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
Saint Michael Cathedral, Tripoli stands in Tripoli del Libano, 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
In the north-west of Lebanon, the Maronite Catholic Archeparchy of Tripoli (Tripoli of the Maronites; Latin: Archieparchia Tripolitanus Maronitarum) is a non-metropolitan archeparchy of the Maronite Church, part of no ecclesiastical province and immediately subject to the Maronite Patriarch of Antioch and the Roman Congregation for the Oriental Churches. Archeparch Youssef Soueif presently leads it, with his seat at Saint Michael Cathedral in the city of Tripoli (Arabic Tarabulus as-Sam).
How to reach it
- Chancery
- Archevêché Maronite, rue Al-Moutran, B.P. 104, Tripoli, Liban
- Telephone
- [06]62.43.24; fax 62.93.93
- [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].