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Archeparchy of Hassaké-Nisibi

Hassaken(sis) et Nisiben(us) Syrorum

Syriac Catholic archeparchy covering Hasakah and the Nisibis region of northeastern Syria. Erected in 1957 as the Eparchy of Hassake and elevated to archeparchy in 1964, it belongs to the Syriac Catholic Patriarchate of Antioch. Its seat is the Cathedral of the Assumption of Mary in Hasakah.

The see

Rank
Archeparchy of the patriarchate
Tradition
Syriac Catholic Church
Erected
1957
Latin
Hassaken(sis) et Nisiben(us) Syrorum
Annuario code
001001585

The see in figures

Catholics
1,500
Priests
1
Catholics per priest
1,500

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

Archbishop
Yacoub Joseph Chami

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 the Assumption of Mary, Hasakah stands in Hassaké, 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.

The province of Syriac Catholic Patriarchate of Antioch

The sees of this province:

On how the Church is ordered into provinces, see the diocese.

History

Among the jurisdictions of the Syriac Catholic Church in Syria stands the Archeparchy of Hasakah-Nisibi(s), also written Al Hasakeh-Nisibi(s) and in French Hassaké-Nisibi, informally Hasakah-Nisibi(s) of the Syriacs. Though an archeparchy (an Eastern Catholic archdiocese) of this sui iuris church, which follows the Syro-Oriental Rite in the Syriac language, it is non-metropolitan and belongs to no ecclesiastical province, answering directly to the Syriac Catholic Patriarch of Antioch and to the Roman Congregation for the Oriental Churches. Its archiepiscopal see is the cathedral of the Assumption of Mary in Hasakah.

How to reach it

Diocesan offices
Archevêché Syrien Catholique, B.P. 6, Hassaké, Syrie
Telephone
[052]320.812; fax 316.340

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.

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Sources

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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.