Maronite Diocese of

Zahlé

Lebanon Lebanon

Continent: Central and Southwest Asia

Rite: Maronite (Antiochian)

Type: Diocese Diocese

Name: Zahlé / Zahleh / Mariamnen(sis) Maronitarum (Latin)

Subject to the Patriarch

Depends on: Dicastery for the Eastern Churches

History

Present Prelates

Bishop (2015.03.14 – ...):Bishop Joseph Mouawad (55)Bishop Joseph Mouawad (55)

Ordinaries

Bishops of Zahlé (Maronite Rite)

Bishop Joseph Mouawad (55)Bishop Joseph Mouawad (55)
(2015.03.14 – ...)

Bishop of Zahlé of the Maronites (Lebanon)

Born:1970.03.26 (Mayfouq, Lebanon)
Ordained Priest:1995.08.13
Consecrated Bishop:2012.07.28

Priest of Jbeil of the Maronites (Lebanon) (1995.08.13 – 2012.06.16)

Titular Bishop of Ptolemais in Phœnicia of the Maronites (2012.06.16 – 2015.03.14)

Bishop of Curia of the Maronites (2012.06.16 – 2015.03.14)

Bishop of Zahlé of the Maronites (Lebanon) (2015.03.14 – ...)

Bishop Mansour Hobeika
(2002.09.12 – 2014.10.28)

Born:1941.12.20 (Lebanon)
Ordained Priest:1968.06.09
Consecrated Bishop:2002.10.26
Died:2014.10.28 († 72)

Bishop of Zahlé of the Maronites (Lebanon) (2002.09.12 – 2014.10.28)

Bishop Georges Scandar
(1990.06.09 – 2002.09.12)

Born:1927.05.12 (Lebanon)
Ordained Priest:1965.06.13
Consecrated Bishop:1977.11.12
Died:2018.05.15 († 91)

Bishop of Baalbek e Zahlé of the Maronites (Lebanon) (1977.11.12 – 1990.06.09)

Bishop of Zahlé of the Maronites (Lebanon) (1990.06.09 – 2002.09.12)

Special Churches

Saïdā (↙), Beirut (←), Baalbek–Deir Al-Ahmar (↗), Damascus (↘), Tyr (↓)

Statistics (2022.12.31)

Population: 38,310 Catholics

Pastoral Centres: 33 parishes, 3 missions

Personnel: 35 priests (19 diocesan, 16 religious), 24 religious (17 brothers, 7 sisters), 3 seminarians

Population

Pastoral Centres

Priests

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Seminarians

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