Syrian Catholic Patriarchate of Antioch

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Syrian Catholic Patriarchate of Antioch
Basic data
Rite church Syrian Catholic Church
Country Lebanon
Diocesan bishop Ignatius Joseph III Younan
Curia Bishop Flavien Joseph Melki
Charles Georges Mrad
Flavien Rami Al-Kabalan (appointed)
Catholics 18,059 ( 1950 )
rite Antiochian rite
Liturgical language Syriac-Aramaic
cathedral Cathedral of Our Lady of Annunciation

The Syrian Catholic Patriarchate of Antioch is the Antiochian patriarchate of the Syrian Catholic Church united with Rome . The chief bears the title of Patriarch of Antioch and of the whole East . He is one of the five competing Patriarchs of Antioch , for the others see Syriac Orthodox Church of Antioch , Antiochian Orthodox Church , Melkite Greek Catholic Church and Maronite Church .

The seat of the Patriarchate has been in Mardin in Anatolia since 1850 , but was relocated during the First World War (1911) to Mosul , in what is now Iraq , and finally to Beirut in Lebanon , Rue de Damas, where it is still located today.

List of patriarchs

All Patriarchs of Antioch - including the Syrian Orthodox - wear in honor of St. Ignatius of Antioch called Ignatius , Greek Ignatios , French Ignace .

  1. Ignatius Andreas Akhidjan (1662–1677)
  2. Ignatius Pierre VI. Chaahbadine (1677-1702); from 1702 to 1782 there was no Syrian Catholic patriarch
  3. Ignatius Michael III. Jarweh (1783–1800), Syrian Orthodox Archbishop of Aleppo (Syria); converted to Catholicism and fled to Lebanon
  4. Ignatius Michael IV (1802-1810)
  5. Ignatius Simon II (1814-1818)
  6. Ignatius Pierre VII. Jarweh (1820-1851)
  7. Ignatius Antoun I (1853–1864)
  8. Ignatius Philippe (1866–1874)
  9. Ignatius Georges V (1874-1891)
  10. Ignatius Behnam II (1893-1897)
  11. Ignatius Ephrem II. Rahmani (October 9, 1898 to May 7, 1929)
  12. Ignatius Gabriel I. Tappouni (June 24, 1929 to January 29, 1968), cardinal since 1935
  13. Ignatius Antoine II. Hayek (March 10, 1968 to July 23, 1998)
  14. Ignatius Moussa I. Daoud (October 13, 1998 to January 8, 2001), since 2000 Prefect of the Eastern Churches Congregation and since 2001 Curial Cardinal
  15. Ignatius Pierre VIII. Abdel-Ahad (February 16, 2001 to February 2, 2008)
  16. Ignatius Joseph III Younan , since January 21, 2009

See also

literature

  • Ignace Antoine II Hayek : Le relazioni della Chiesa Syro-Giacobita con la Santa Sede del 1443 al 1656 . Geuthner. Paris 2015.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ “Mar Ephrem Joseph Younan has been elected as the new Syrian Catholic Patriarch of Antioch. “ , Vatican Radio , January 22, 2009