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The Maronite Church belongs to the Syriac Christian tradition and to the West Syriac Rite; Classical Syriac remains the liturgical language of the Maronite Church, [89] alongside Arabic. [24] The Maronite community is generally considered culturally part of the Christian Arab community and of the Arab world. [49]
Two important Maronite Christian symbols on Sassine Square, Achrafieh: a statue of Saint Charbel, the most important Maronite saint; and a billboard on a side of a building showing Bachir Gemayel, the Maronite militia leader during the Civil War 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.
Maronite Pastoral Center in St. Louis, Missouri, U.S. Immigration of Maronite faithful from the Middle East to the United States began during the latter part of the nineteenth century. When the faithful were able to obtain a priest, communities were established as parishes under the jurisdiction of the local Latin bishops.
The Protestants of Lebanon form the fourth-largest Christian group, representing 1% of the Lebanese population. [34] Most Protestants in Lebanon were converted by missionaries, primarily English and American, during the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. They are divided into a number of Reformed denominations, including Presbyterian ...
Maron, also called Maroun or Maro (Syriac: ܡܪܘܢ, Mārōn; Arabic: مَارُون, Mārūn; 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]
Saint George Maronite Cathedral and the Mohammad Al-Amin Mosque, Beirut. A Christian Church and a Druze Khalwa in the Shuf Mountains: Historically, the Druzes and the Christians in the Shuf Mountains lived in complete harmony. [1] Listing the largest community in the Lebanese electorate, per qada and/or "minor district".
St. Louis the King Cathedral, Haifa. The Maronite Church has been in formal communion with the Roman Catholic Church since 1182. [3] As an Eastern Catholic church (a sui juris Eastern Church in communion with Rome, which yet retains its own language, rites and canon law), it has its own liturgy, which basically follows the Antiochene rite in classical Syriac.
Maronite Cypriots are an ethnoreligious group and are members of the Maronite Catholic Archeparchy of Cyprus whose ancestors migrated from the Levant during the Middle Ages. A percentage of them traditionally speak a variety of Arabic known as Cypriot Arabic , in addition to Greek .