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Catholic Church in Syria

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The Catholic Church in Syria is part of the worldwide Catholic Church under the spiritual leadership of the Pope in Rome.

In 2020, there were 192,000 Catholics in Syria, approximately 1% of the total population.[https://www.catholicsandcultures.org/syria Catholics and Culture website, retrieved 2023-08-08] The Catholics of Syria belong to several churches of different rites/languages, mainly the Melkite,[https://www.state.gov/reports/2022-report-on-international-religious-freedom/syria/ US State Dept 2022 report] but also Armenian, Chaldean, Syriac, Maronite and the Latin Church. There are separate but overlapping jurisdictions for each church.

All the bishops are members of the 'national' Assembly of Catholic Ordinaries in Syria and of the (vast) regional Episcopal Conference for Arab countries. The Eastern Catholic bishops also belong to the (international) synod of their patriarchate or other specific church.

Caritas Syria is the charity organisation of the Catholic Church of Syria.

Dioceses and archdioceses

GCatholic.org: [http://www.gcatholic.org/dioceses/country/SY-name.htm Catholic Dioceses in Syria]Catholic-Hierarchy: [http://catholic-hierarchy.org/country/dsy2.html Current Dioceses in Syria]

;Eastern Catholic particular Churches

:Byzantine Rite

:Antiochian Rites

::Maronites (no Metropolitan)

::Syriac (Syrian) Catholic

:Armenian Rite (no Metropolitan)

:Syro-Oriental Rite (no Archeparchy)

;Latin Church

Cathedrals

  • Cathedral of Our Lady of Dormition (Greek-Melkite Catholic Archdiocese of Bosra–Haūrān)
  • Cathedral of Our Lady of Latakia (Maronite Catholic Diocese of Lattaquié)
  • Cathedral of Our Lady of the Annunciation (Greek-Melkite Catholic Archdiocese of Lattaquié)
  • Cathedral of Our Lady of the Assumption (Syrian Catholic Archdiocese of Aleppe)
  • Cathedral of St. Francis of Assisi (Roman Catholic Apostolic Vicariate of Aleppe)
  • Cathedral of the Holy Spirit (Syrian Catholic Archdiocese of Homs)
  • Cathedral Our Lady of Reliefs (Armenian Catholic Archdiocese of Aleppe)
  • Church of the Queen of the Universe (Armenian Catholic Patriarchal Exarchate of Damas)
  • Greek-Melkite Cathedral of Our Lady of Peace (Greek-Melkite Catholic Archdiocese of Homs)
  • Greek-Melkite Cathedral of the Virgin Mary (Greek-Melkite Catholic Archdiocese of Aleppe)
  • Greek-Melkite Patriarchal Cathedral of the Dormition of Our Lady (Greek-Melkite Catholic Patriarchal See of Antioch)
  • Maronite Cathedral (Maronite Catholic Archdiocese of Damas)
  • St. Elias Maronite Cathedral (Maronite Catholic Archdiocese of Aleppe)
  • St. Joseph’s Cathedral (Chaldean Catholic Diocese of Aleppe)
  • Syrian Cathedral (Syrian Catholic Archdiocese of DamasGCatholic.org: [http://www.gcatholic.org/churches/data/cathSY.htm Cathedrals in Syria]

Syrian popes

Seven popes from Syria ascended the papal throne,{{cite book|url=https://archive.org/details/anewuniversalbi03platgoog|title=A new universal biography, containing interesting accounts|publisher=Printed for Sherwood, Jones, and co.|year=1825|author= John Platts| page=[https://archive.org/details/anewuniversalbi03platgoog/page/n495 479]}}{{cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=a4dCAAAAYAAJ&pg=PA14|title= The History of the Popes: From the Foundation of the See of Rome to A.D. 1758; with an Introd. and a Continuation to the Present Time, Volume 2|author= Archibald Bower, Samuel Hanson Cox|year= 1845| page=14}} many of them lived in Italy, Pope Gregory III,{{cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=x05LcArWCWAC&pg=PA483|title= A New Universal Biography: Forming the first volume of series|author= John Platts|year= 1825| page=483}}{{cite book|url=https://archive.org/details/powerpopesoranh00daungoog|title= The Power of the Popes|publisher=Tims|year=1838|author= Pierre Claude François Daunou| page=[https://archive.org/details/powerpopesoranh00daungoog/page/n366 352]}} was previously the last pope to have been born outside Europe until the election of Francis in 2013.

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! style="width:10%;"|Place of birth

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|1

|33 – 64/67

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|St Peter
PETRUS

|Simon Peter

|Bethsaida, Galilea, Roman Empire

| Saint Peter was from village of Bethsaida, Gaulanitis, Roman Syria, Roman Empire (located in the modern Golan Heights)

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|11

| 155 to 166

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| St Anicetus
ANICETUS

| Anicitus

| Emesa, Syria

| Traditionally martyred; feast day 17 April

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|82

|12 July 685
– 2 August 686
(1 year+)

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|John V
Papa IOANNES Quintus

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|Antioch, Syria

| 

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|84

|15 December 687
– 8 September 701
(3 year+)

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|St Sergius I
Papa Sergius

| 

|Sicily, Italy

|Sergius I was born in Sicily, but he was from Syrian parentage{{Cite web|url=http://www.britannica.com/EBchecked/topic/535547/Saint-Sergius-I|title = Saint Sergius I | Pope}}

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|87

|15 January 708
to 4 February 708
(21 days)

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|Sisinnius
Papa SISINNIUS

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|Syria

| 

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|88

|25 March 708
– 9 April 715
(7 years+)

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|Constantine
Papa COSTANTINUS sive CONSTANTINUS

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|Syria

|Last pope to visit Greece while in office, until John Paul II in 2001

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|90

|18 March 731
to 28 November 741
(10 years+)

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|St Gregory III
Papa GREGORIUS Tertius

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|Syria

|Son of a Syrian named John.

See also

References

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External links

  • [http://www.catholic-hierarchy.org/country/sy.html Profile of the Catholic church in Syria]
  • [http://www.gcatholic.org/dioceses/country/SY.htm GCatholic.org]
  • [http://catholic-hierarchy.org/country/sy.html Catholic-Hierarchy]

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