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Saint Elias of Enna, born John Rachites (Ancient Greek: Ἰωάννης Ῥαχίτης; 822/823 in Enna – August 17, 903 in Thessalonica), is venerated as a saint by the Catholic Church and the Orthodox Church. Elias is also known as Saint Elias the Younger, or Junior, to distinguish him from the biblical prophet Elijah. He lived a very ...
The archeparchy has an estimated population of 200,000 Melkite faithful in 2015. Its cathedral is dedicated to Saint Elias and its see is located in Beirut. It includes 114 priests, 83 men religious, 179 women religious, and 83 parishes. [3]
St. Elijah's Church, a church dedicated to the prophet Elijah, ... St Elias Orthodox church, Budhanoor, Kerala; Iraq. Dair Mar Elia, a monastery near Mosul;
The Cathedral of Saint Elias and Saint Gregory the Illuminator (Armenian: Սուրբ Եղիա – Սուրբ Գրիգոր Լուսաւորիչ եկեղեցի) is a cathedral of the Armenian Catholic Church in Debbas Square in downtown Beirut, Lebanon. Construction was funded in 1928 by Pope Pius XI. [1]
The headquarters of the archeparchy (archdiocese) is Haifa, where the Saint Elias Cathedral is located. The Melkite Greek Catholic Archeparchy of Akka counted 73,921 baptised members, [ 1 ] and had a territory subdivided into thirty-seven parishes in 2022.
The statue of Saint Elias in the church yard. Prior to the current building of the cathedral, a small church from the 15th century has occupied the same area. The old church was mentioned by the Italian explorer Pietro Della Valle who visited Aleppo in 1625 and described it as one of the four churches that were built adjacent to each other in one yard with one gate, in the newly created ...
Saint Elias Greek Catholic Cathedral is a Melkite Greek Catholic cathedral located in downtown Beirut, [1] Lebanon, dedicated to Saint Elias, completely restored after the Lebanese Civil War (1975–1990) on previous constructions dating to a Choueirite convent from the 19th century. Its plan followed the Byzantine style.
Elijah, an Old Testament prophet sometimes revered as a Christian saint; Elias I of Jerusalem (died 516), 5th-century Patriarch of Jerusalem; Elias and companions (died 309), group of Egyptian Christian martyrs (d.309) Ignatius Elias III, a Syriac Orthodox Patriarch of Antioch who is a saint in the Syriac Orthodox Church