Apostolic Exarchate of Gerusalemme (Palestina e Giordania)

The see

Rank

Patriarchal exarchate

Tradition

Syriac Catholic Church

Erected

1892

Annuario code

001000543

The see in figures

Catholics

5,341

Extent

116,633 km²

Catholics per km²

0.0

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

Patriarchal Exarch

Yaacoub Semaan

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

Church of Saint Thomas, Jerusalem stands in Jerusalem, 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.

History

Serving Palestine and Jordan, the Syriac Catholic Patriarchal Exarchate of Jerusalem (informally Jerusalem of the Syriacs) is a Patriarchal exarchate, a missionary Eastern Catholic pre-diocesan jurisdiction, of the Syriac Catholic Church, which follows the Antiochian Rite in the Syriac language and Arameic. It depends directly on the Syriac Catholic Patriarch of Antioch, whose see is in Beirut, belongs to no ecclesiastical province, and in Rome answers to the Dicastery for the Eastern Churches. The Church of Saint Thomas in Jerusalem serves as its cathedral episcopal see.

How to reach it

Diocesan offices

Vicariat Patriarcal Syrien Catholique, 6 Chaldean Str., P.O. Box 19787, 9119702 Jerusalem

Telephone

[02]628.26.57; fax 628.42.17

This see keeps no website of its own, so the address of its diocesan offices is published here: withholding it would protect nothing and leave a reader with nowhere to go. Where a see publishes its own site, the register sends you there instead.

Sources

Wikipedia

Compiled from the published statements of the see and the references of the Holy See, among them the Annuario Pontificio. Corrections: hello@catholicintelligence.com.