Patriarchal Exarchate of Kuwait

The Patriarchal Exarchate Kuwait is an immediates exarchate of the Melkite Greek Catholic Church in Kuwait . It is directly subordinate to the Melkite Patriarch of Antioch . It was founded on March 25, 1972 by the Melkite Patriarch of Antioch Archbishop Maximos V. Hakim . Archimandrite Basilios Kanakry was Patriarchal Vicar from 1978 to 1991 and Patriarchal Exarch of Kuwait from 1991 to 2002. Archimandrite Boutros Gharib has been Patriarchal Exarch of Kuwait since 2002 . In Kuwait around 700 members of the Melkite Church are looked after by a patriarchal priest and a religious priest .

See also

• List of Roman Catholic Dioceses # Melkite Greek Catholic Church
• Christianity in Kuwait

Web links

• Melkite Greek Catholic Church ( Memento from April 19, 2012 in the Internet Archive ) (English)
• Entry on Greek-Melkite Patriarchal Exarchate of Kuwait on gcatholic.org (English)