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The Catholic Church in Jordan is part of the worldwide Catholic Church, under the spiritual leadership of the Pope in Rome. In 2023, Christians made up 2.1% of Jordan's population. [1] Of these half, or 1.06% of the country's population were Catholics (115,000 people). [2] Catholics are divided in five Rites:
It serves as the headquarters of Melkite Greek Catholic Archeparchy of Petra and Philadelphia in Amman (Archieparchia Petrensis et Philadelphiensis) that was created on May 2, 1932, as Archeparchy of Transjordan with the Bull Apostolica Sedes of Pope Pius XI. Pope Benedict XVI visited on May 9, 2009.
St. George's Church: A chaplaincy is to Aydun Jordan: Karak: Our Lady Mary of the Rosary: Our Lady's Church: Jordan: Madaba: Beheading of John the Baptist: Church of St. John the Baptist Beheading: Jordan: Mafraq: Joseph of Nazareth: St. Joseph's Church: Jordan: Ma'an: James the Less: St. James Church: Ma'an writes to معان (d = Maʿān ...
The St. Joseph's Church [1] (Arabic: كنيسة القديس يوسف), also alternatively called "Latin Church of Jabal Amman", [2] is a religious building belonging to the Catholic Church in Amman, [3] the capital of the Hashemite Kingdom of Jordan. As its name suggests, the church is dedicated to Joseph of Nazareth. It is one of the parishes ...
Choir dress of a cardinal, in scarlet Cardinals are senior members of the clergy of the Catholic Church who are titular clergy of the Diocese of Rome, thereby serving as the primary advisors to the Bishop of Rome. They are almost always bishops and generally hold important roles within the church, such as leading prominent archdioceses or heading dicasteries within the Roman Curia. Cardinals ...
Our Lady of the Annunciation Church [1] [2] or simply Church of Jabal Webdeh is a Catholic parish [3] in Jabal al-Luweibdeh in the city of Amman. [4] The parish is Roman (or Latin) rite, under the jurisdiction of the Latin Patriarchate of Jerusalem (Patriarcha Hierosolymitanus Latinorum). The parish celebrated its 50-year parish anniversary in ...
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The Catholic Church runs a maternity hospital and a general hospital in Irbid. The Government Hospital in Ajloun was originally run by Baptists. The Annoor Sanatorium in Mafraq, which treats tuberculosis and other lung diseases, was founded by a Christian doctor. Several mission clinics were founded across Jordan.