Archeparchy of Homs, Emesa
Hemesen(us) Graecorum Melkitarum
Eastern metropolitan see · Melkite Greek Catholic Church · Homs, Emesa, Syria
Melkite Greek Catholic archeparchy of the Byzantine rite for Homs (ancient Emesa), Syria. Erected in 1849 within the Melkite Greek Catholic Patriarchate of Antioch, its seat is the Cathedral of Our Lady of Peace in Homs, with a co-cathedral of Saints Constantine and Helen in Yabrud.
The see
- Rank
- Eastern metropolitan see
- Tradition
- Melkite Greek Catholic Church
- Erected
- 1849
- Latin
- Hemesen(us) Graecorum Melkitarum
- Annuario code
- 001001605
The see in figures
- Catholics
- 30,000
- Extent
- 56,000 km²
- Catholics per km²
- 0.5
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
- Jean-Abdo Arbach, B.C.
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 Our Lady of Peace, Homs stands in Homs, Emesa, the church that holds the cathedra from which this see takes its name.
Its co-cathedral is Co-Cathedral of Saints Constantine and Helen, Yabrud.
On what a cathedral is, see the cathedral; every see church on earth is gathered at the cathedrals.
The province of Melkite Greek Catholic Patriarchate of Antioch
This see is the metropolitan of its province.
The sees of this province:
- Apostolic Exarchate of IraqIraq
- Archeparchy of Alep, Beroea, HalabAlep
- Archeparchy of Bosra e HaūrānBosra
- Archeparchy of Damas, Aš-Šām, Damasco, DimašqDamas, Aš-Šām, Damasco, Dimašq
- Archeparchy of LattaquiéLattaquié
- Archeparchy of Petra e FiladelfiaPetra e Filadelfia
- Melkite Greek Catholic Patriarchate of AntiochDamascus
On how the Church is ordered into provinces, see the diocese.
History
In central Syria the Melkite Greek Catholic Church maintains the Archeparchy of Homs (Latin: Archeparchy Hemesena Graecorum Melkitarum-Epiphaniensis-Iabrudensis), a nominally metropolitan archeparchy of that Byzantine Rite, Arabic-speaking church. Founded on March 4, 1849, it possesses no suffragan sees, though two eparchial titles have been merged into it.
How to reach it
- Diocesan offices
- Archevêché Grec-Melkite-Catholique, Rue Notre Dame, Yabroud, Syrie
- Telephone
- [011]7810.114; fax 7821.943
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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Compiled from the published statements of the see and the references of the Holy See, among them the Annuario Pontificio. Corrections: hello@catholicintelligence.com.