Cathedral of Our Lady of the Dormition

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Cathedral of the Dormition of Our Lady
كَاتِدْرَائِيَّةُ سَيِّدَةِ النِّيَاحِ لِلرُّومِ الْمَلَكِيِّينَ فِي دِمَشْقَ
Location Damascus, Syria
Denomination Melkite Greek Catholic Church
Architecture
Status Cathedral

The Cathedral of Our Lady of the Dormition (Arabic: كَاتِدْرَائِيَّةُ سَيِّدَةِ النِّيَاحِ لِلرُّومِ الْمَلَكِيِّينَ فِي دِمَشْقَ‎, translit. Kātidrāʾīyat Sayyidat an-Niyāḥ li r-Rūm al-Malakīyīn fī Dimašq‎), also called the Melkite Greek Catholic Patriarchal Cathedral of the Dormition of Our Lady,[1] is the cathedral of the Melkite Greek Catholic Church[2] in the city of Damascus, Syria.[3] It is the seat of the Greek-Melkite Archeparchy of Damascus (Latin: Archieparchia Damascena Graecorum Melkitarum) dependent on the Melkite Catholic Patriarchate of Antioch, which includes about 150,000 baptized adherents and twenty parishes with fifty priests. Its faithful, assigned from the 18th century to the Holy See in Rome, employ the Arabic language and the Byzantine rite.

The Archbishop Vicar (or Eparca) starting in 2006 was Youssef Absi, former Superior General of the Society of Missionaries of St. Paul. On June 21, 2017, he was elected as the Melkite Greek Patriarch.[4]

The cathedral is dedicated to the Dormition of the Virgin, the Eastern Christian "counterpart" to the Latin Church doctrine of the assumption of Mary.

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References

  1. ↑ Cathedral of the Dormition of Our Lady
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External links

  • Media related to Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'strict' not found. at Wikimedia Commons
  • www.gcatholic.org

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