Archeparchy of Damas, Aš-Šām, Damasco, Dimašq
Damascen(us) Maronitarum
Archeparchy of the patriarchate · Maronite Church · Damas, Aš-Šām, Damasco, Dimašq, Syria
Maronite Catholic archeparchy of the West Syriac (Antiochene) rite for Damascus, Syria, with bishops documented since 1527 and canonical erection in 1736. It belongs to the Maronite Patriarchate of Antioch.
The see
- Rank
- Archeparchy of the patriarchate
- Tradition
- Maronite Church
- Erected
- 1736
- Latin
- Damascen(us) Maronitarum
- Annuario code
- 001001270
The see in figures
- Catholics
- 20,300
- Population
- 2,013
- Priests
- 4
- Catholics per priest
- 5,075
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
- Samir Nassar
- Born
- 5 July 1950
- Birthplace
- Nebay
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
de San Antonio stands in Damas, Aš-Šām, Damasco, Dimašq, 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 Maronite Patriarchate of Antioch
The sees of this province:
- Apostolic Exarchate of GiordaniaGiordania
- Archeparchy of Alep, Beroea, HalabAlep
- Archeparchy of AntéliasAntélias
- Archeparchy of CiproCipro
- Eparchy of Baalbek-Deir El-AhmarBaalbek-Deir El-Ahmar
- Eparchy of Lattaquié, Laodicea, LattaqiyaLattaquié
- Maronite Patriarchate of AntiochAntiochia
On how the Church is ordered into provinces, see the diocese.
History
Damascus is the seat of a Maronite Church archeparchy, known in Latin as the Archeparchy Maronitarum Damascena. Archbishop Samir Nassar presently leads it, and its faithful numbered 20,300 in 2013.
How to reach it
- Chancery
- Archevêché Maronite, Bab Touma, B.P. 2179, Damas, Syrie
- Telephone
- 947.77.411; fax [011]543.60.02
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].