Metropolitan Archdiocese of Damascus, Syria (Greek-Melkite Rite)

Type: Metropolitan Archdiocese Metr. Archdiocese , Proper archeparchy of the Greek-Melkite Patriarch

Name: Damascus (English) / Damas (français) / Damasco (Italiano) / Dimašq / Aš-Šām / Damascen(us) Græcorum Melkitarum (Latin)

Governed by: Patriarchal See of Antioch

Ecclesiastical Province: Antioch

300: Established as Metropolitan Archdiocese of Damascus (English) / Damas (français) / Damasco (Italiano) / Dimašq / Aš-Šām / Damascen(us) Græcorum Melkitarum (Latin)
1724: Gained suffragan see Zahleh–Furzol

Patriarch ([2017.06.20] 2017.06.22 – ...):

Patriarch Youssef Absi (78)

President of Synod of the Greek-Melkite Catholic Church

Patriarchal Administrator of Iraq of the Greek-Melkites (Iraq)

Metropolitan Archbishops of Damascus (Greek-Melkite Rite)

Archbishop Jérémie Arsène Karamé
(1763? – 1795?)

Died:

1795?

Metropolitan Archbishop of Damascus of the Greek-Melkites (Syria) (1763? – 1795?)

Auxiliary Bishop: Archbishop Joseph Absi, M.S.P. (78) (later Patriarch) (2014 – 2017.06.20)

Population: 3,000 Catholics

Pastoral Centres: 18 parishes

Personnel: 45 priests (39 diocesan, 6 religious), 22 religious (6 brothers, 16 sisters), 10 seminarians

Greek-Melkite Metropolitan Archdiocese of