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The Maronite Church is an Eastern Catholic sui iuris particular church in full communion with the Pope of Rome and the worldwide Catholic Church, with self-governance under the Code of Canons of the Eastern Churches. It is headed by Patriarch Bechara Boutros al-Rahi since 2011, seated in Bkerke northeast of Beirut, Lebanon. Officially known as the Syriac Maronite Church of Antioch, it is part of Syriac Christianity by liturgy and heritage.Despite the many archepiscopates, none is a Metropolitan abstraction made of the Patriarch of Antioch, who has a single Suffragan (Jebbeh–Sarba–Jounieh) and hence an ecclesiastical province. In Latin America, two Maronite eparchies are suffragans of Latin metropolitans.
The Maronite church has twenty-six eparchies and patriarchal vicariates as follows:
Middle East
- Maronite Catholic Patriarchate of Antioch see above
- Worldwide Immediately subject to the Patriarch
- In Lebanon:
- Maronite Catholic Archeparchy of Antelias
- Maronite Catholic Eparchy of Baalbek-Deir El Ahmar
- Maronite Catholic Eparchy of Batroun
- Maronite Catholic Archeparchy of Beirut
- Maronite Catholic Eparchy of Jbeil
- Maronite Catholic Eparchy of Joubbé, Sarba and Jounieh (sole Suffragan of the Patriarch of Antioch)
- Maronite Catholic Eparchy of Sidon
- Maronite Catholic Archeparchy of Tripoli
- Maronite Catholic Archeparchy of Tyre
- Maronite Catholic Eparchy of Zahleh
- In the Holy Land:
- Maronite Catholic Archeparchy of Haifa and the Holy Land, in Israel whose Archeparch holds the offices of Patriarchal Vicar of:
- Patriarchal Exarch of the Maronite Catholic Patriarchal Exarchate of Jerusalem and Palestine in the Palestinian Territories and
- Maronite Catholic Patriarchal Exarchate of Jordan in (Trans)Jordan
- Maronite Catholic Archeparchy of Haifa and the Holy Land, in Israel whose Archeparch holds the offices of Patriarchal Vicar of:
- In Syria:
- Maronite Catholic Archeparchy of Damascus
- Maronite Catholic Archeparchy of Aleppo
- Maronite Catholic Eparchy of Latakia
- In Cyprus: Maronite Catholic Archeparchy of Cyprus in Nicosia
- In Egypt: Maronite Catholic Eparchy of Cairo
Elsewhere
- Exempt, i.e. immediately subject to the Holy See:
- In Africa: Maronite Catholic Eparchy of Annunciation of Ibadan, with cathedral see being Church of Our Lady of the Annunciation, in Ibadan, in Nigeria
- In South America: Maronite Catholic Apostolic Exarchate of Colombia, with pro-cathedral see being Church of Our Lady of Lebanon, in Bogotá, in Colombia
- Subject to the Synod in matters of liturgical and particular law, otherwise exempt, i.e. immediately subject to the Holy See and its Roman Congregation for the Eastern Churches:
- In Europe:
- Maronite Catholic Eparchy of Our Lady of Lebanon of Paris in France
- In North and Central America:
- Maronite Catholic Eparchy of Saint Maron of Montreal, in Canada
- Maronite Catholic Eparchy of Our Lady of Lebanon of Los Angeles in the United States (Central US, US West Coast)
- Maronite Catholic Eparchy of Saint Maron of Brooklyn in the United States (US East Coast)
- Maronite Catholic Eparchy of Our Lady of the Martyrs of Lebanon in Mexico in Mexico
- In Oceania:
- Maronite Catholic Eparchy of Saint Maron of Sydney, in Australia
- Suffragan Eparchies in the ecclesiastical provinces of Latin Metropolitan Archbishops; both in South America:
- Maronite Catholic Eparchy of San Charbel in Buenos Aires in Argentina, suffragan of the Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Buenos Aires
- Maronite Catholic Eparchy of Our Lady of Lebanon of São Paulo in Brazil, suffragan of the Roman Catholic Archdiocese of São Paulo
Statistics for individual Dioceses may be found on the Catholic-Hierarchy.org website by clicking on the Maronite Catholic Church (Current Dioceses) page and selecting the individual Diocese desired.
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