Eparchy of Bairut, Beirut
Beryten(sis) Chaldaeorum
Eparchy of the patriarchate · Chaldean Catholic Church · Beirut, Lebanon
Chaldean Catholic eparchy covering all of Lebanon, erected on 3 July 1957 from territory of the suppressed Eparchy of Gazireh. It is immediately dependent on the Chaldean Catholic Patriarch of Babylon and its cathedral is Saint Raphael (Archangel Raphael) Cathedral in Baabda near Beirut.
The see
- Rank
- Eparchy of the patriarchate
- Tradition
- Chaldean Catholic Church
- Erected
- 3 July 1957
- Latin
- Beryten(sis) Chaldaeorum
- Annuario code
- 001000796
The see in figures
- Catholics
- 10,000
- Priests
- 3
- Catholics per priest
- 3,333
- Extent
- 10,452 km²
- Catholics per km²
- 1.0
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
- Eparch
- Michel Kassarji
- Born
- 13 June 1955
- Birthplace
- Zahlé
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
Cathedral of St. Raphael, Baabda stands in Beirut, 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
For all of Lebanon, the Chaldean Catholic Church (sui iuris, following the Syro-Oriental Rite in the Syriac/Aramaic language) maintains a single eparchy, the Chaldean Catholic Eparchy of Beirut. Belonging to no ecclesiastical province, it depends immediately on the Chaldean Catholic Patriarch of Babylon in Baghdad, Iraq. Its cathedral see stands in Beirut, the Lebanese capital.
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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.