Archdiocese of Petra and Philadelphia, Jordan 🇯🇴 (Greek-Melkite Rite)

Continent: Central and Southwest Asia

Rite: Greek-Melkite (Byzantine)

Type: Archdiocese

Name: Petra and Philadelphia (English) / Petra e Filadelfia (Italiano) / Petren(sis) et Philadelphien(sis) (Latin)

Subject to the Patriarch

Neighbouring Dioceses: Jerusalem (←), Akka (↖), Bosra–Hauran (↑), Damascus (↗), Iraq (→)

Depends on: Dicastery for the Eastern Churches

Website:

History

1932.05.02: Established as Archdiocese of Petra and Philadelphia (English) / Petra e Filadelfia (Italiano) / Petren(sis) et Philadelphien(sis) (Latin) (without ecclesiastical province)

Papal Visits

Present Prelates

Archbishop (2018.02.20 – ...):

Archbishop Joseph Gébara (60)

Ordinaries

Archbishops of Petra and Philadelphia (Greek-Melkite Rite)

Archbishop Joseph Gébara (60)
(2018.02.20 – ...)

Archbishop of Petra and Philadelphia of the Greek-Melkites (Jordan)

Born:	1965.06.10 (Amatour, Lebanon)
Ordained Priest:	1993.07.10
Consecrated Bishop:	2013.12.21

Priest of Beirut–Gibail of the Greek-Melkites (Lebanon) (1993.07.10 – 2013.10.31)

Coadjutor Bishop of Nossa Senhora do Paraíso em São Paulo of the Greek-Melkites (Brazil) (2013.10.31 – 2014.07.21)

Bishop of Nossa Senhora do Paraíso em São Paulo of the Greek-Melkites (Brazil) (2014.07.21 – 2018.02.20)

Archbishop of Petra and Philadelphia of the Greek-Melkites (Jordan) (2018.02.20 – ...)

Archbishop Yaser Rasmi Hanna Al-Ayyash (70)
(2007.06.26 – 2015.04.13)

Protosyncellus of Jerusalem of the Greek-Melkites (Palestine)
Archbishop emeritus of Petra and Philadelphia of the Greek-Melkites (Jordan)

Born:	1955.12.04 (Shatana, Jordan)
Ordained Priest:	1987.07.12
Consecrated Bishop:	2007.10.13

Priest of Petra and Philadelphia of the Greek-Melkites (Jordan) (1987.07.12 – 2007.06.26)

Archbishop of Petra and Philadelphia of the Greek-Melkites (Jordan) ([2007.06.23] 2007.06.26 – 2015.04.13)

Protosyncellus of Jerusalem of the Greek-Melkites (Palestine) (2018.02.09 – ...)

Archbishop Georges El-Murr, B.C.
(1992.08.26 – 2007.06.23)

Born:	1930.10.11 (Ka’a, Lebanon)
Ordained Priest:	1958.07.27
Consecrated Bishop:	1992.10.23
Died:	2017.02.08 († 86)

Archbishop of Petra and Philadelphia of the Greek-Melkites (Jordan) (1992.08.26 – 2007.06.23)

Patriarchal Exarch of Iraq of the Greek-Melkites (Iraq) (1997 – 2007.06.23)

Archbishop Saba Youakim, B.S.
(1970.10.15 – 1992.08.24)

Born:	1914.06.02 (Wardieh, Lebanon)
Ordained Priest:	1939.11.30
Consecrated Bishop:	1968.09.29
Died:	2003.03.06 († 88)

Superior General of Basilian Order of the Most Holy Saviour (Salvatorian Fathers) (1956 – 1968.09.09)

Titular Archbishop of Scythopolis (1968.09.09 – 1970.10.15)

Auxiliary Bishop of Antioch of the Greek-Melkites (Syria) (1968.09.09 – 1970.10.15)

Archbishop of Petra and Philadelphia of the Greek-Melkites (Jordan) (1970.10.15 – 1992.08.24)

Archbishop Mikhayl Assaf
(1948.09.19 – 1970.08.10)

Born:	1887.10.27 (Damascus, Syria)
Ordained Priest:	1912.07.20
Consecrated Bishop:	1948.10.10
Died:	1970.08.10 († 82)

Archbishop of Petra and Philadelphia of the Greek-Melkites (Jordan) (1948.09.19 – 1970.08.10)

Archbishop Paul Salman
(1933.03.13 – 1948.07.01)

Born:	1886.01.25 (Damascus, Syria)
Ordained Priest:	1911.07.20
Consecrated Bishop:	1932.06.05
Died:	1948.07.01 († 62)

Archbishop of Petra and Philadelphia of the Greek-Melkites (Jordan) ([1932.05.02] 1933.03.13 – 1948.07.01)

Special Churches

Cathedral: Cathédrale grecque-melkite catholique Saint-Georges, Amman

Jerusalem (←), Akka (↖), Bosra–Hauran (↑), Damascus (↗), Iraq (→)

Statistics (2022.12.31)

Population: 26,000 Catholics

Pastoral Centres: 30 parishes

Personnel: 22 priests (diocesan), 2 deacons, 10 religious (1 brother, 9 sisters), 13 seminarians

Greek-Melkite Archdiocese of