Archeparchy of Bosra e Haūrān
Bostren(us) et Auranen(sis)
Eastern metropolitan see · Melkite · Bosra, Syria
Melkite Greek Catholic archeparchy of the Byzantine rite covering Bosra and the Hauran region of southern Syria. Erected in 1881 within the Melkite Greek Catholic Patriarchate of Antioch, its seat is the Cathedral of Our Lady of the Dormition in Khabab.
The see
- Rank
- Eastern metropolitan see
- Tradition
- Melkite
- Erected
- 1881
- Latin
- Bostren(us) et Auranen(sis)
- Annuario code
- 001000933
The see in figures
- Catholics
- 27,000
- Population
- 2,012
- Priests
- 15
- Catholics per priest
- 1,800
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
- Elias El-Debei
- Born
- 27 September 1970
- Birthplace
- Damas
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, Khabab stands in Bosra, 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 Damas, Aš-Šām, Damasco, DimašqDamas, Aš-Šām, Damasco, Dimašq
- Archeparchy of Homs, EmesaHoms, Emesa
- Archeparchy of LattaquiéLattaquié
- Archeparchy of Petra e FiladelfiaPetra e Filadelfia
- Melkite Greek Catholic Patriarchate of AntiochDamascus
On how the Church is ordered into provinces, see the diocese.
History
With its territory in Syria, the Melkite Greek Catholic Archeparchy of Bosra and Hauran (in Latin: Archeparchy Bostrena et Auranensis) belongs to the Melkite Greek Catholic Church. Archeparch Elias El-Debei currently governs it.
How to reach it
- Chancery
- Archevêché Grec-Melkite-Catholique, Khabab, Hauran, Syrie
- Telephone
- [015]55.55.012
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].