Apostolic Exarchate of Venezuela
Caracen(sis) Graecorum Melkitarum
Eastern exarchate immediately subject to the Holy See · Melkite Greek Catholic Church · Venezuela
The Melkite Greek Catholic Apostolic Exarchate of Venezuela was erected on 19 February 1990 by Pope John Paul II via the bull Quo longius, covering all Melkite faithful in the country. Exempt and dependent on the Dicastery for the Eastern Churches, its seat is the Cathedral of St. George (Catedral San Jorge) in Caracas, with five parishes nationwide.
The see
- Rank
- Eastern exarchate immediately subject to the Holy See
- Tradition
- Melkite Greek Catholic Church
- Erected
- 19 February 1990
- Latin
- Caracen(sis) Graecorum Melkitarum
- Annuario code
- 001000335
The see in figures
- Catholics
- 25,000
- Population
- 2,010
- Priests
- 4
- Catholics per priest
- 6,250
- Extent
- 916,445 km²
- Catholics per km²
- 0.0
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
- Exarch
- Joseph Antoine Khawam, BA
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 St. George, Caracas stands in Venezuela, 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
For the faithful of the Melkite Greek Catholic Church, all of Venezuela falls under a single missionary pre-diocesan jurisdiction, the Apostolic Exarchate of Venezuela (Latin: Exarchatus Apostolicus Caracensis Graecorum Melkitarum, meaning of Caracas). The exarchate belongs to no ecclesiastical province, Melkite or Latin, being immediately exempt to the Holy See, notably the Congregation for the Oriental Churches.
How to reach it
- Chancery
- Catedral San Jorge, Final 3a Avenida de Montalbán 2, Caracas 1020, Venezuela
- Telephone
- [0212]443.30.19; fax 443.01.31
- [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].