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Syriac Catholic Archeparchy of Aleppo

Coordinates: 36°12′39.600″N 37°9′21.499″E / 36.21100000°N 37.15597194°E / 36.21100000; 37.15597194
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Archeparchy of Aleppo
Location
CountrySyria
Coordinates36°12′39.600″N 37°9′21.499″E / 36.21100000°N 37.15597194°E / 36.21100000; 37.15597194
Information
DenominationCatholic Church
Sui iuris churchSyriac Catholic Church
RiteWest Syriac Rite
Established28 January 1659
Current leadership
PopeFrancis
PatriarchIgnatius Joseph III Yonan
ArcheparchDenys Antoine Chahda

The Syriac Catholic Archeparchy of Aleppo (informally Aleppo of the Syrians) is a Syriac Catholic Church ecclesiastical territory or archeparchy of the Catholic Church in Syria. The Archeparchy of Aleppo is not a metropolitan see and is exemption directly to the Syriac Catholic Patriarch of Antioch.

The seat of the archeparchy is in the Cathedral of Our Lady of the Assumption, in Halab, Syria.

History

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Established on 28 January 1659 as Archeparchy of Aleppo, on Syrian territory previously without a Syriac Catholic ordinary or jurisdiction.

Episcopal ordinaries

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(incomplete : first centuries unavailable)

Archeparchs of Aleppo
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