Diocese of Nuestra Señora del Paraíso en México, Mexico (Greek-Melkite Rite)

Continent: North America

Rite: Greek-Melkite (Byzantine)

Type: Diocese Diocese

Name: Nuestra Señora del Paraíso en México / Dominæ Nostræ Paradisi in Civitate Mexicana Græcorum Melkitarum (Latin)

Subject to the Patriarch

Depends on: Dicastery for the Eastern Churches

Website:

History

1988.02.27: Established as Diocese of Nuestra Señora del Paraíso en México / Dominæ Nostræ Paradisi in Civitate Mexicana Græcorum Melkitarum (Latin) (without ecclesiastical province)

Contact Info

Address: Obispado Greco-Melquita Católico, Venustiano Carranza 107, 06060 Mexico, D.F., Mex., Mexico

Phone: (55) 55-42-02-25

Present Prelates

Bishop:

vacant

Apostolic Administrator (2019.12.20 – ...):

Bishop Joseph Antoine Khawam, B.A. (56)

Apostolic Exarch of Venezuela of the Greek-Melkites (Venezuela)

Titular Bishop of Apamea in Syria of the Greek-Melkites

Ordinaries

Bishops of Nuestra Señora del Paraíso en México (Greek-Melkite Rite)

Bishop Joseph Antoine Khawam, B.A. (56)
(Apostolic Administrator 2019.12.20 – ...)

Bishop Nicholas James Samra (80)
(Apostolic Administrator 2015.01.16 – 2019.12.20)

Fr. Gabriel N. Ghanoum, B.S. (later Archimandrite)
(Apostolic Administrator 2006 – 2015.01.16)

Archimandrite Antoine Mouhanna
(Apostolic Administrator 1994.07.11 – 2006)

Archbishop Boutros Raï, B.A.
(1988.02.27 – 1994.06.07)

Born:	1922.11.08 (Syria)
Ordained Priest:	1948.06.26
Consecrated Bishop:	1968.11.10
Died:	1994.06.07 († 71)

Superior General of Basilian Alepian Order (1965 – 1968.09.09)

Titular Archbishop of Edessa in Osrhoëne of the Greek-Melkites (1968.09.09 – 1988.02.27)

Bishop of Nuestra Señora del Paraíso en México of the Greek-Melkites (Mexico) (1988.02.27 – 1994.06.07)

Special Churches

Cathedral: Iglesia de Porta Coeli, Ciudad de México, Ciudad de México

Newton (↑), Venezuela (↘)

Statistics (2022.12.31)

Population: 3,078 Catholics

Pastoral Centres: 1 parish

Personnel: 2 priests (diocesan)

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