Apostolic Vicariate of Aleppo

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Apostolic Vicariate of Aleppo
Basic data
Country Syria
Apostolic Vicar Georges Abou Khazen OFM
founding June 27, 1762
Parishes 10 (2004 / AP 2005 )
Residents 6,000,000 ( 1970 )
Catholics 12,000 (2004 / AP 2005 )
proportion of 0.2%
Diocesan priest 0 (2004 / AP 2005 )
Religious priest 41 (2004 / AP 2005 )
Catholics per priest 293
Friars 56 (2004 / AP 2005 )
Religious sisters 192 (2004 / AP 2005 )
rite Roman rite
Liturgical language Arabic
cathedral Baby Jesus Cathedral (since 2011)
The former Francis of Assisi Cathedral, Aleppo

The Apostolic Vicariate of Aleppo ( lat. : Apostolicus Vicariatus Aleppensis ) is in Syria situated Roman Catholic Apostolic Vicariate with headquarters in Aleppo .

history

The Apostolic Vicariate was on June 27, 1762 by Clement XIII. founded out of the Apostolic Vicariate of Constantinople . At that time it comprised the entire Middle East and North and Central Africa. In 1817 it changed its name to Vicariate Apostolic Syria, Egypt, Arabia and Cyprus . In 1839, the Apostolic Vicariate gave up most of its territory to establish the Apostolic Vicariate of Egypt and Arabia (Egypt, Sudan, Arabia, Tanzania) and the Apostolic Prefecture of Abyssinia (Ethiopia, Eritrea, Djibouti). After being renamed in Aleppo, the Vicariate gave up part of its territory on October 4, 1847 to re-establish the Jerusalem Patriarchate (Palestine, Israel, Jordan, Cyprus). On June 4, 1953, the territory of Lebanon was separated and the independent Apostolic Vicariate of Beirut was established. Today the Apostolic Vicariate of Aleppo includes all believers of the Roman Rite throughout Syria.

The Vicariate Cathedral was the Francis of Assisi Church in Aleppo from 1937 to 2011 . On January 15, 2011, the new Baby Jesus Cathedral in Aleppo was consecrated.

Vicars Apostolic

See also

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ GCatholic.org . - On the consecration of the new cathedral: website of the Latin Patriarchate of Jerusalem, Italian or French .