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The Cathedral of Our Lady of Arabia is a Roman Catholic cathedral in Awali, Bahrain, dedicated to Our Lady of Arabia. It serves as the seat of the Apostolic Vicar of Northern Arabia. It was inaugurated on 9 December 2021 [2] by His Majesty Hamad bin Isa Al Khalifa, the King of Bahrain. It is the largest Catholic church in the Arabian Peninsula. [3]
Exterior/main entrance door of the church. The Sacred Heart Church (Arabic: كنيسة القلب المقدس) is a Roman Catholic parish in Manama, Bahrain. [1] The church is one of only two Roman Catholic churches in Bahrain (the other being the Cathedral of Our Lady of Arabia in Awali). The Sacred Heart Church serves an estimated 140,000 ...
The Catholic Church in Bahrain is part of the worldwide Catholic Church, under the spiritual leadership of the Pope in Rome. The first Catholic church built in the Persian Gulf in modern times was constructed in 1939 on land given by the Emir of Bahrain. [1] Sacred Heart Church serves approximately 140,000 Catholics. [2]
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On 31 May 2011, with a decree by the Congregation of the Evangelization of Peoples, the Apostolic Vicariate of Arabia was divided, restructured and redrawn into two: The Apostolic Vicariate of Northern Arabia (Bahrain, Qatar, Kuwait and Saudi Arabia) with residence and see of the Bishop in Awali, Bahrain and The Apostolic Vicariate of Southern Arabia (United Arab Emirates, Oman and Yemen) with ...
The Catholic Church in Kuwait is part of the worldwide Catholic Church, under the spiritual leadership of the Pope in Rome. In 2020, Christians made up 17.93% of the population. [ 1 ] [ 2 ] Of these, 80% were Catholic, [ 3 ] or approximately 560,000 people.
The king of Bahrain, Hamad bin Isa Al Khalifa, granted the Roman Catholic community in Bahrain around 9,000 square metres of land in Awali to build a new church. [ 9 ] [ 10 ] The announcement of the news was formally conveyed to the Apostolic Vicar of Northern Arabia , Bishop Camillo Ballin on 11 February 2013.
St Martin Church, Sharjah; St Nicholas' Church, Fujairah; St Andrew Church, Abu Dhabi; St Thomas Church, Al Ain; Kuwait St Paul Church – Kuwait; Qatar Church of the Epiphany, Doha – Qatar; Bahrain St Christopher's and Awali Church, Bahrain; Yemen Christ Church, Aden, Yemen; Cyprus [4] St. Barnabas church, Limassol; St Helena Church, Larnaca