Jurisdiction: | Patriarchal Exarchate |
Jerusalem (Syrian) | |
Country: | Palestine, Jordan |
Population As Of: | 2020 |
Catholics: | 5,341 |
Parishes: | 3 |
Denomination: | Catholic Church |
Sui Iuris Church: | Syriac Catholic Church |
Rite: | Antiochian Rite |
Established: | 1892 |
Cathedral: | Church of Saint Thomas, Jerusalem |
Patriarch: | Ignatius Joseph III Yonan |
Bishop: | Camil Afram Antoine Semaan |
Bishop Title: | Patriarchal Exarch |
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Archdeacon: | for one--> |
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.
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.
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.