Diocese of Saint-Maron de Montréal, Canada 🇨🇦 (Maronite Rite)

Rite: Maronite (Antiochian)

Name: Saint-Maron de Montréal (français) / Saint Maron of Montreal (English) / Sancti Maronis Marianopolitan(us) Maronitarum (Latin)

Subject to the Patriarch

Depends on: Dicastery for the Eastern Churches

Website:

Celebrations

Patron Saint: Saint Maron

History

1982.08.27: Established as Diocese of Saint-Maron de Montréal (français) / Saint Maron of Montreal (English) / Sancti Maronis Marianopolitan(us) Maronitarum (Latin) (without ecclesiastical province)

Contact Info

Address: 12475 rue Grenet, Montréal, QC H4J 2K4, Canada

Phone: +1 (514) 331-2807

Present Prelates

Bishop (2013.01.10 – ...):

Bishop Paul-Marwan Tabet, L.M. (64)

Ordinaries

Bishops of Saint-Maron de Montréal (Maronite Rite)

Bishop Paul-Marwan Tabet, L.M. (64)
(2013.01.10 – ...)

Bishop of Saint-Maron de Montréal of the Maronites (Canada)

Born:	1961.07.20 (Bhamdoun, Lebanon)
Ordained Priest:	1986.07.20
Consecrated Bishop:	2013.01.26

Bishop of Saint-Maron de Montréal of the Maronites (Canada) (2013.01.10 – ...)

Bishop Joseph Khoury
(1996.11.11 – 2013.01.10)

Gloria Dei honor ecclesiæ

Born:	1936.11.01 (Behwaita, Lebanon)
Ordained Priest:	1964.12.19
Consecrated Bishop:	1993.09.04
Died:	2016.11.17 († 80)

Titular Bishop of Chonochora (1993.04.29 – 1996.11.11)

Bishop of Saint-Maron de Montréal of the Maronites (Canada) (1996.11.11 – 2013.01.10)

Bishop Georges Abi-Saber, O.L.M.
(1990.11.23 – 1996.02.07)

Born:	1923.05.12 (Wadi Sette, Lebanon)
Ordained Priest:	1952.07.16
Consecrated Bishop:	1977.11.12
Died:	2015.08.26 († 92)

Bishop of Latakia of the Maronites (Syria) (1977.08.04 – 1986.05.02)

Titular Bishop of Aradus (1986.05.02 – 1990.11.23)

Patriarchal Vicar of Antioch of the Maronites (Lebanon) (1986.05.02 – 1990.11.23)

Bishop of Saint-Maron de Montréal of the Maronites (Canada) (1990.11.23 – 1996.02.07)

Archbishop Elias Shaheen
(1985.03.13 – 1990.11.23)

Born:	1914.07.20 (Ebrine, Lebanon)
Ordained Priest:	1939.03.25
Consecrated Bishop:	1982.11.07
Died:	1991.12.05 († 77)

Bishop of Saint-Maron de Montréal of the Maronites (Canada) (1982.08.27 – 1985.03.13)

Archbishop-Bishop of Saint-Maron de Montréal of the Maronites (Canada) (1985.03.13 – 1990.11.23)

Bishop Elias Shaheen (later Archbishop)
(1982.08.27 – 1985.03.13)

(see above)

Special Churches

Cathedral: Cathédrale Saint-Maron, Montréal, Québec

Churches by City (16)

Our Lady of Lebanon of Los Angeles (↙), Saint Maron of Brooklyn (↓)

Statistics (2022.12.31)

Population: 96,580 Catholics

Pastoral Centres: 21 parishes

Personnel: 24 priests (15 diocesan, 9 religious), 1 deacon, 15 religious (9 brothers, 6 sisters), 1 seminarian

Maronite Diocese of

Saint-Maron de Montréal

Canada