Diocese of Zahlé, Lebanon 🇱🇧 (Maronite Rite)

Rite: Maronite (Antiochian)

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

Subject to the Patriarch

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

1990.06.09: Established as Diocese of Zahlé / Zahleh / Mariamnen(sis) Maronitarum (Latin) (from Diocese of Baalbek e Zahlé and without ecclesiastical province)

Bishop (2015.03.14 – ...):

Bishop Joseph Mouawad (56)

Bishops of Zahlé (Maronite Rite)

Bishop Joseph Mouawad (56)
(2015.03.14 – ...)

Bishop of Zahlé of the Maronites (Lebanon)

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)

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

Bishop Georges Scandar
(1990.06.09 – 2002.09.12)

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)

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

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