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Syriac Catholic Patriarchal Exarchate of Jerusalem

Syriac Catholic Patriarchal Exarchate of Jerusalem

Eastern Catholic missionary jurisdiction in Palestine & Jordan


The Syriac Catholic Patriarchal Exarchate of Jerusalem (informally Jerusalem of the Syriacs) is a Patriarchal exarchate (missionary Eastern Catholic pre-diocesan jurisdiction) of the Syriac Catholic Church (Antiochian Rite in Syriac language and Arameic) for Palestine and Jordan.

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It is directly dependent on the Syriac Catholic Patriarch of Antioch (with see in Beirut), but not part of his or any other ecclesiastical province, and depends in Rome on the Dicastery for the Eastern Churches.

Its cathedral episcopal see is the Church of Saint Thomas in Jerusalem.

History

Established in 1991 as Patriarchal Exarchate of Jerusalem (Palestine and Jordan), on territory (Palestine and (Trans)Jordan) previously without proper Ordinary of the particular church sui iuris, which was governed as Patriarchal Vicariate of Jerusalem of the Syriacs.

Patriarchal Exarchs of Jerusalem (Palestine and Jordan)


References

  1. "From the Oriental Churches, 28.03.2020" (Press release). Holy See Press Office. 28 March 2020. Retrieved 28 March 2020.

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