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The Maronites in Israel and the Palestinian territories are subject to either the Maronite Catholic Archeparchy of Haifa and the Holy Land, or the Maronite Catholic Patriarchal Exarchate of Jerusalem and Palestine, both in turn subject to the Maronite Patriarch of Antioch, but since 1996 both these jurisdictions of the Maronite Church have been ...
In 2014, Israel recognized the Aramean community within its borders as a distinct national minority, allowing certain Christians in Israel, predominantly Galilean Maronites, to register their ethnicity as “Aramean” rather than “Arab” or “Unclassified.” These Christians connect their cultural heritage, ancestry, and language directly ...
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]
Syrian Maronites total 51,000, following the archdioceses of Aleppo and Damascus and the Diocese of Latakia. [58] A Maronite community of about 10,000 lives in Cyprus [58] with approximately 1,000 speakers of Cypriot Maronite Arabic from Kormakitis. [59] [60] A noticeable Maronite community exists in northern Israel (Galilee), numbering 7,504. [58]
The convent's bell tower. The Maronite Convent, also known as the Maronite Church or the Maronite Monastery, is a Maronite Catholic convent located on Maronite Convent Street 25 near the Jaffa Gate in the Armenian quarter of the Old City of Jerusalem. [1]
The SLA was a Christian-led militia allied with the Israel Defense Forces during the South Lebanon conflict until Israel's withdrawal from Lebanon in May 2000 that ended the Israeli occupation of Southern Lebanon. [1] The majority are Maronites but there are also Muslims, Druze and Christians of other denominations among them. [2]
In Israel, Maronites together with smaller Aramaic-speaking Christian populations of Syriac Orthodox and Greek Catholic adherence, are legally and ethnically classified as either Arameans or Arabs, per their choice. Arab Christians are descended from Arab Christian tribes, Arabized Greeks or recent converts to Protestantism.
The Maronite Church of the Annunciation [1] is a Maronite Catholic church [2] that is located in the city of Nazareth, [3] in northern Israel.It is dedicated to the Annunciation and should not be confused with the Roman Catholic Basilica of the Annunciation nor the Coptic Church of the Annunciation in the same city with the same name.