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Achrafieh (Arabic: الأشرفية) is an upper-class area in eastern Beirut, Lebanon. [1] In strictly administrative terms, the name refers to a sector ( secteur ) centred on Sassine Square, the highest point in the city, as well as a broader quarter ( quartier ).
Cathedrals of the Catholic Church in Lebanon: [1] Patriarchal Seat in Bkerké (Maronite Church) Cathedral of St. Georges in Ehden; Church of Our Lady of Zgharta in Zgharta; Cathedral of Our Lady of Annunciation in Beirut (Syriac Catholic Church) St. Barbara Cathedral in Baalbek (Melkite Greek Catholic Church) Cathedral of St. Stephen in Batroun ...
Dominique Joseph Mathieu, O.F.M. Conv. (born 13 June 1963) is a Belgian Catholic prelate who has served as Archbishop of Tehran–Isfahan since 2021. He is a member of the Order of Friars Minor Conventual. He was made a cardinal on 7 December 2024 by Pope Francis.
In Catholic ecclesiology, a church is an assembly of the faithful, hierarchically ordered, both in the entire world (the Catholic Church), or in a certain territory (a particular church). To be a sacrament (a sign) of the Mystical Body of Christ in the world, a church must have both a head and members ( Col. 1:18 ). [ 7 ]
The Patriarch Ignatius Joseph III Yonan of the Syriac Catholic Church currently resides in Beirut, where the church is based. The church owns a summer residence in Deir El Sherfet on top of Mount Lebanon. [17] In 1817, a Syriac Catholic diocese was established in Beirut, but has remained vacant since 1898.
The Collège de la Sagesse (Arabic: کلیة الحکمة) is a Lebanese major national and Catholic school founded in 1875 [1] by the Maronite archbishop of Beirut at the time, Joseph Debs who laid the first stone of the original building. [2]
[citation needed] They [clarification needed] are also clear on the fact that it is full communion with Rome and the bishop of Rome that causes one to be in communion with the Catholic Church. [ citation needed ] This displays a recognition that, as Cyprian of Carthage (3rd century) puts it, Rome is "the principal church, in which sacerdotal ...
Nasrallah Boutros Sfeir (Moran Mor Naṣrallah Buṭrus Ṣufayr; Arabic: الكاردينال مار نصر الله بطرس صفير; Latin: Victor Petrus Sfeir; 15 May 1920 – 12 May 2019) [1] was the 76th Maronite Catholic Patriarchate of Antioch and the Whole Levant and head of the Maronite Church from 1986 to 2011.