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The Maronites derive their name from Saint Maron, a Syriac Christian whose followers migrated to the area of Mount Lebanon from their previous place of residence around the area of Antioch, and established the nucleus of the Maronite Church. [32] Christianity in Lebanon has a long and continuous history. The spread of Christianity in Lebanon ...
In the 12th century, about 40,000 Maronites resided in the area around Antioch and modern-day Lebanon. [34] By the 21st century, estimates suggest that the Maronite diaspora population may have grown to more than twice the estimated 2 million Maronites living in their historic homelands in Lebanon, Syria, and Israel. [57]
The Maronites and the Druze founded modern Lebanon in the early eighteenth century through the ruling and social system known as the "Maronite–Druze dualism". [3] The 1860 Druze–Maronite conflict led to the establishment of Mount Lebanon Mutasarrifate , an autonomous entity within the Ottoman Empire dominated by Maronites and protected by ...
Maron, also called Maroun or Maro (Syriac: ܡܪܘܢ, Mārūn; Arabic: مَارُون; Latin: Maron; Ancient Greek: Μάρων), was a 4th-century Syriac Christian hermit monk in the Taurus Mountains whose followers, after his death, founded a religious Christian movement that became known as the Maronite Church, in full communion with the Holy See and the Catholic Church. [5]
Maronite Patriarch's Summer Residence in Dimane. The Maronite Catholic Patriarchate of Antioch (Latin: Patriarchatus Antiochenus Maronitarum) is the seat of the Patriarch of the Maronite Church.
This is a list of the Maronite patriarchs of Antioch and all the East, the primate of the Maronite Church, one of the Eastern Catholic Churches.Starting with Paul Peter Massad in 1854, after becoming patriarch of the Maronite Catholic Patriarchate of Antioch, they assume the name "Peter" (Boutros in Arabic, بطرس ), after the traditional first Bishop of Antioch, St. Peter, who was also the ...
The Maronites and the Druze divided Lebanon until the modern era. The major cities on the coast, Acre , Beirut, and others, were directly administered by Muslim Caliphs. As a result, the people became increasingly absorbed by Arabic culture.
Maronites, [1] Greeks, [2] South Slavs, [2] Albanians [3] The Mardaites ( Medieval Greek : Μαρδαΐται ) or al-Jarajima ( Syriac : ܡܪ̈ܕܝܐ ; Arabic : ٱلْجَرَاجِمَة / ALA-LC : al-Jarājimah ) were early Christians following Chalcedonian Christianity in the Nur Mountains .