Syrian Catholic Patriarchal Exarchate of Lebanon
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The Syrian Catholic Patriarchal Exarchate of Lebanon was a short-lived 20th-century jurisdiction of the Eastern Catholic Syrian Catholic Church (Antiochian Rite in Syriac language) in the Patriarch's own host country, Lebanon.
History
It was established in ?1991 as a Patriarchal Exarchate of the Patriarch in his own see Antioch's Lebanese host city, Beirut.
It was suppressed in 1997, its territory again being covered by the particular church's Syrian Catholic Patriarchate of Antioch and its own Metropolitanate in its see.
Episcopal Ordinaries
- Patriarchal Vicars of Lebanon of the Syrians
- Archbishop Flavien Zacharie Melki (1963.07.06 – 1983), Titular Archbishop of Amida of the Syrians (1963.07.06 – 1989.11.30)
- Archbishop Raboula Antoine Beylouni (1983.07.12 – 1984) Titular Bishop of Mardin of the Syrians (1983.07.12 – 1991.06.01); later Vicar General of Antioch of the Syrians (Lebanon) (1984 – 1989), Archeparch (Archbishop) of Aleppo of the Syrians (Syria) (1991.06.01 – 2000.09.16), Bishop of Curia of the Syrians (2000 – 2011.03.01) & Titular Archbishop of Mardin of the Syrians (2000.09.16 – ...)
- Msgr. Raphaël Chahine (1990 – 1991)