Syrian Catholic Patriarchal Exarchate of Jerusalem

The Syrian (or Syriac) Catholic Patriarchal Exarchate of Jerusalem (informally Jerusalem of the Syrians) is a Patriarchal exarchate (missionary Eastern Catholic pre-diocesan jurisdiction) of the Syrian Catholic Church (Antiochian Rite in Syriac language and Arameic) for Palestine and Jordan.

It is directly dependent on the Syrian Catholic Patriarch of Antioch (with see in Beirut), but not part of his or any other ecclesiastical province, and depends in Rome on the Congregation for the Oriental Churches.

Its cathedral episcopal see is the World Heritage Site Church of St. Thomas, in Jerusalem, Holy Land (Israel/Palestine).

History

Established in 1991 as Patriarchal Exarchate of Jerusalem (Palestine and Jordan), on territory (Palestine and (Trans)Jordan) previously without proper Ordinary of the particular church sui iuris, which was governed as Patriarchal Vicariate of Jerusalem of the Syriacs.

Ordinaries

(all Syriac Rite)

Patriarchal Exarchs of Jerusalem (Palestine and Jordan)

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