Apostolic Vicariate of Aleppo
Apostolic Vicariate of Aleppo | |
Basic data | |
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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 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
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- Aloisio Gandolfi , CM (1818–1825)
- Jean-Baptiste Auvergne (1833–1836) (also Apostolic Delegate in Syria and Egypt)
- Giuiseppe Angelo di Fazio , OFMCap (1837–1838) (also Apostolic Delegate in Syria)
- Paolo Brunoni (1853–1869) (also Apostolic Delegate in Syria and later Patriarch of Antioch )
- Luigi Piavi (Biavi), OFM (1876–1889) (also Apostolic Delegate in Syria and later Patriarch of Jerusalem )
- Pietro Gonzalez Carlo Duval , OP (1895–) (also Apostolic Delegate and Nuncio in Syria from 1896)
- Frediano Giannini , OFM (1905–1936)
- Bonaventure Akiki , OFM (1973–1979) (Apostolic Administrator from 1967 to 1973)
- Guerino Dominique Picchi , OFM (1980–1992)
- Armando Bortolaso , SDB (1992–2002)
- Giuseppe Nazzaro , OFM (2002–2013)
- Georges Abou Khazen OFM (since 2013)
See also
Web links
- Entry on Apostolic Vicariate Aleppo on catholic-hierarchy.org
- Entry on Apostolic Vicariate Aleppo on gcatholic.org (English)
Individual evidence
- ^ GCatholic.org . - On the consecration of the new cathedral: website of the Latin Patriarchate of Jerusalem, Italian or French .