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  2. Christianity in Lebanon - Wikipedia

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    Melkite Christianity in Lebanon is the third-largest Christian denomination, representing 5% of the Lebanese population. [33] The Melkite Catholics emerged as a distinct group from 1724 when they split from the Greek Orthodox Church over a disputed election of the Patriarch of Antioch. The elected man was considered too 'pro-Roman' and another ...

  3. Lebanese Maronite Christians - Wikipedia

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    A Christian church and Druze khalwa in Shuf Mountains: In the early 18th century the Maronites and the Druze set the foundation for what is now Lebanon. [ 6 ] The cultural and linguistic heritage of the Lebanese people is a blend of both indigenous Phoenician elements and the foreign cultures that have come to rule the land and its people over ...

  4. Category:Christianity in Lebanon - Wikipedia

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    This page was last edited on 11 September 2023, at 16:49 (UTC).; Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike License 4.0; additional terms may apply.

  5. Religion in Lebanon - Wikipedia

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    Lebanon is an eastern Mediterranean country that has the most religiously diverse society within the Middle East, recognizing 18 religious sects. [2] [3] The recognized religions are Islam (Sunni, Shia, Alawites, Isma'ili and Druze), Christianity (the Maronite Church, the Greek Orthodox Church, the Melkite Greek Catholic Church, evangelical Protestantism, the Armenian Apostolic Church, the ...

  6. Catholic Church in Lebanon - Wikipedia

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    The "Land of the Cedars", as Lebanon is known, is the only one in the region where Catholics play an active role in national politics. Besides the President of the Republic , which by the Constitution of Lebanon must be a Maronite Catholic, in the Lebanese Parliament there are 43 seats reserved to Catholics out of a total of 128 seats.

  7. Lebanese Christians - Wikipedia

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    Christianity in Lebanon This page was last edited on 15 December 2023, at 10:53 (UTC). Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution ...

  8. Maronite Church - Wikipedia

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    The Eastern Mediterranean under Umayyad rule, with the Mardaites zones showed in Mount Lebanon and the Amanus. In 687, as part of an agreements with Abd al-Malik ibn Marwan, Byzantine emperor Justinian II sent 12,000 Christian Maronites from Lebanon to Armenia, [27] in exchange for a substantial payment and half the revenues of Cyprus. [19]

  9. Demographics of Lebanon - Wikipedia

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    According to the CIA World Factbook, [17] in 2021, the Christian population in Lebanon was estimated at 44%. In 2012 a more detailed breakdown of the size of each Christian sect in Lebanon was made: Maronite Christians are the largest of the Christian groups who in total account for about 32.4% of the total population of Lebanon. [19]