Diocese of Saint Michael’s of Sydney
Sancti Michaëlis Sydneyen(sis) Graecorum Melkitarum
Eparchy immediately subject to the Holy See · Melkite Greek Catholic Church · Sydney, Australia
Listed as a Syro-Malabar eparchy of Saint Michael's of Sydney. As of this research no erection date, eparch, cathedral, or official website could be verified in authoritative sources (Catholic-Hierarchy, GCatholic, Wikipedia, or Syro-Malabar official sites); the only documented Syro-Malabar jurisdiction in Australia is the Eparchy of St Thomas the Apostle of Melbourne. Fields are left null pending verification.
The see
- Rank
- Eparchy immediately subject to the Holy See
- Tradition
- Melkite Greek Catholic Church
- Erected
- 26 March 1987
- Latin
- Sancti Michaëlis Sydneyen(sis) Graecorum Melkitarum
- Patron
- Saint Michael
- Annuario code
- 001002827
The see in figures
- Catholics
- 52,200
- Priests
- 10
- Catholics per priest
- 5,220
Figures as recorded in the register, from the Annuario Pontificio and the see's own published statements. Shares and ratios are computed from the two figures shown beside them.
The bishop
- Eparch
- Robert Rabbat
- Born
- 14 February 1960
- Birthplace
- Bairut
A see whose chair stands empty is recorded as vacant rather than filled with a guess. On what a bishop is, see the bishop.
The cathedral
St Michael's Melkite Catholic Cathedral, Darlington, Sydney stands in Sydney, the church that holds the cathedra from which this see takes its name.
On what a cathedral is, see the cathedral; every see church on earth is gathered at the cathedrals.
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Compiled from the published statements of the see and the references of the Holy See, among them the Annuario Pontificio. Corrections: hello@catholicintelligence.com.