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Maronites derive their name from Maron, a 4th-century Syriac Christian saint venerated by multiple Christian traditions. He is often conflated with John Maron , the first Maronite Patriarch, who ruled 685-707.
The Maronite missal was first printed between 1592 and 1594 in Rome, although with fewer anaphoras. Patriarch Stephan al-Duwayhî (1670–1704), (later declared a "Servant of God"), was able to find a middle ground between reformers and conservatives, and re-vitalized Maronite liturgical tradition. [35]
The Maronites belong to the Maronite Syriac Church of Antioch in Hatay Province, Turkey) is an Eastern Catholic Syriac Church that had affirmed its communion with Rome since 1180, although the official view of the Church is that it had never accepted either the Monophysitic views held by their Syriac neighbours, which were condemned in the ...
The Maronite Church has historically been treated as never having fully schismed with the Holy See, despite a dispute over Christological doctrine that concluded in 1154; most of the other Eastern Catholic churches came into being from the 16th century onwards.
The archeparchy includes all the faithful of the Maronite Church residing in Israel. The archeparchial seat is the city of Haifa, where the Saint Louis the King Cathedral is located. [3] As of 2019, the Archeparchy had approximately 10,000 members, 14 priests, 8 parishes and 3 missions. [1]
The Maronite Patriarchate extends its jurisdiction over all the Maronite faithful wherever they dwell. The seat of the patriarchate is Bkerké in Keserwan District in Lebanon. Dimane (in Bsharri District) is the summer residence of the Patriarch. The Maronite Catholic Eparchy of Joubbé, Sarba and Jounieh is the eparchy of Maronite patriarch.
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]
Among the Maronites, the three Sundays before Lent are devoted to the memory of the dead: the Sunday of deceased priests (Septuagesima), the Sunday of the Righteous and Righteous , the Sunday of the faithful departed (Quinquagesima). It is most likely that they evolved from the three consecutive Fridays of commemoration of the faithful departed ...