Melkite Greek Catholic Patriarchate of Antioch
Antiochen(us) Graecorum Melkitarum
Patriarchal Church · Melkite Greek Catholic Church · Damascus, Syria
Patriarchate of Antioch of the Melkite Greek Catholic Church, of the Byzantine rite, in full communion with Rome since 1724 under Patriarch Cyril VI Tanas. The patriarchal residence is in Damascus at the Cathedral of Our Lady of the Dormition. The patriarch also bears the titles of Alexandria and Jerusalem and heads the worldwide Melkite Church.
The see
- Rank
- Patriarchal Church
- Tradition
- Melkite Greek Catholic Church
- Erected
- 1724
- Latin
- Antiochen(us) Graecorum Melkitarum
- Annuario code
- 001000547
The bishop
- Patriarch
- His Beatitude Youssef Absi
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
Cathedral of Our Lady of the Dormition, Damascus stands in Damascus, 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 Melkite Greek Catholic Patriarchate of Antioch
This see is the metropolitan of its province.
The sees of this province:
- Apostolic Exarchate of IraqIraq
- Archeparchy of Alep, Beroea, HalabAlep
- Archeparchy of Bosra e HaūrānBosra
- Archeparchy of Damas, Aš-Šām, Damasco, DimašqDamas, Aš-Šām, Damasco, Dimašq
- Archeparchy of Homs, EmesaHoms, Emesa
- Archeparchy of LattaquiéLattaquié
- Archeparchy of Petra e FiladelfiaPetra e Filadelfia
On how the Church is ordered into provinces, see the diocese.
History
Full communion with the Holy See binds to Rome an autocephalous Byzantine Rite Eastern Catholic Church commonly called the Melkite Catholic Church. The body is the Melkite Greek Catholic Patriarchate of Antioch (Greek: Μελχίτικο Πατριαρχείο Αντιοχείας), and its legal name is the Rūm Greek Catholic Patriarchate of Antioch and All the East (Arabic: بطريركيّة أنطاكية وسائر المشرق للروم الملكيين الكاثوليك, romanized: Baṭriyarkiyyat ʾAnṭākiya wa-Sāʾir al-Mašriq li-r-Rūm al-Malakiyyīn al-Kāṯūlīk).
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 chancery's address, telephone and email, 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
The see's own website · Wikipedia
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].