Eparchy of Alep, Beroea, Halab
Aleppen(sis) Chaldaeorum
Suffragan eparchy · Chaldean Catholic Church · Alep, Syria
Chaldean Catholic eparchy of the East Syriac rite covering Chaldean faithful in Syria from its seat in Aleppo. Erected in 1957 from the Chaldean Eparchy of Gazireh, it belongs to the Chaldean Catholic Patriarchate of Babylon. Its seat is St. Joseph's Cathedral in Aleppo; the Chaldean synod extended Bishop Audo's service past retirement age in 2024.
The see
- Rank
- Suffragan eparchy
- Tradition
- Chaldean Catholic Church
- Erected
- 3 July 1957
- Latin
- Aleppen(sis) Chaldaeorum
- Annuario code
- 001000639
The see in figures
- Catholics
- 30,000
- Population
- 2,012
- Priests
- 6
- Catholics per priest
- 5,000
- Extent
- 185,180 km²
- Catholics per km²
- 0.2
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
- Eparch
- Antoine Audo, S.J.
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
St. Joseph's Cathedral, Aleppo stands in Alep, 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.
The province of Chaldean Catholic Patriarchate of Babylon
On how the Church is ordered into provinces, see the diocese.
History
The whole country of Syria falls within this eparchy of the Chaldean Catholic Church, seated at Aleppo (also Halab in Arabic, or Beroa as in Antiquity).
How to reach it
- Chancery
- Evêché Chaldéen Catholique, Quartier Villat, Alep, Syrie
- Telephone
- [021]444.16.60; fax 460.08.00
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].