Diocese of Saint Maron of Sydney, Australia (Maronite Rite)

Continent: Oceania

Rite: Maronite (Antiochian)

Type: Diocese Diocese

Name: Saint Maron of Sydney (English) / Sancti Maronis Sydneyen(sis) Maronitarum (Latin)

Subject to the Patriarch

Depends on: Dicastery for the Eastern Churches

Website:

History

1973.06.25: Established as Diocese of Saint Maron of Sydney (English) / Sancti Maronis Sydneyen(sis) Maronitarum (Latin) (without ecclesiastical province)

Contact Info

Address: 105 The Boulevarde, PO Box 385, Strathfield, NSW 2135, Australia

Phone: +61 2 9642 0211

Present Prelates

Bishop (2013.04.17 – ...):

Bishop Antoine-Charbel Tarabay, O.L.M. (56)

Ordinaries

Bishops of Saint Maron of Sydney (Maronite Rite)

Bishop Antoine-Charbel Tarabay, O.L.M. (56)
(2013.04.17 – ...)

Bishop of Saint Maron of Sydney of the Maronites (Australia)

Born:	1967.11.15 (Tannourine, Lebanon)
Ordained Priest:	1993.07.11
Consecrated Bishop:	2013.05.25

Bishop of Saint Maron of Sydney of the Maronites (Australia) (2013.04.17 – ...)

Bishop ‘Ad Abikaram (87)
(2001.10.26 – 2013.04.17)

Bishop emeritus of Saint Maron of Sydney of the Maronites (Australia)

Born:	1937.03.28 (Kornet Chehwan, Lebanon)
Ordained Priest:	1962.03.25
Consecrated Bishop:	2002.01.12

Priest of Antélias of the Maronites (Lebanon) (1962.03.25 – 2001.10.26)

Bishop of Saint Maron of Sydney of the Maronites (Australia) (2001.10.26 – 2013.04.17)

Bishop Joseph Hitti
(1990.11.23 – 2001.10.26)

Born:	1925.09.30 (Aytou, Lebanon)
Ordained Priest:	1951.03.24
Consecrated Bishop:	1991.01.06
Died:	2022.02.03 (Beirut, Lebanon † 96)

Bishop of Saint Maron of Sydney of the Maronites (Australia) (1990.11.23 – 2001.10.26)

Archbishop Ignace Abdo Khalifé, S.J.
(1973.06.25 – 1990.11.23)

Born:	1914.05.10 (Lebanon)
Ordained Priest:	1943.08.24
Consecrated Bishop:	1970.04.05
Died:	1998.07.07 († 84)

Auxiliary Bishop of Antioch of the Maronites (Lebanon) (1970.03.20 – 1971)

Titular Archbishop of Apamea in Syria of the Maronites (1970.03.20 – 1973.06.25)

Patriarchal Vicar of Antioch of the Maronites (Lebanon) (1971 – 1973.06.25)

Archbishop-Bishop of Saint Maron of Sydney of the Maronites (Australia) (1973.06.25 – 1990.11.23)

Special Churches

Cathedral: St Maroun’s Cathedral, Redfern, New South Wales
Co-Cathedral: Co-Cathedral of Our Lady of Lebanon, Harris Park, New South Wales
Shrines in the Extraordinary Jubilee of Mercy

Statistics (2022.12.31)

Population: 150,000 Catholics

Pastoral Centres: 17 parishes

Personnel: 53 priests (30 diocesan, 23 religious), 5 deacons, 43 religious (23 brothers, 20 sisters), 16 seminarians

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