Greek-Melkite Metropolitan Archdiocese of

Damascus

Rite: Greek-Melkite (Byzantine)

Type: Metropolitan Archdiocese, Proper eparchy of the Greek-Melkite Patriarch

Population: 3,000 Catholics (2014)

Governed by: Patriarchal See of Antioch

Statistics: 8 parishes, 1 mission, 9 priests (6 diocesan, 3 religious), 3 deacons, 33 lay religious (3 brothers, 30 sisters), 10 seminarians (2014)

300: Established as Metropolitan Archdiocese of Damascus (English) / Damas (français) / Damasco (Italiano) / Dimašq / Aš-Šām / Damascen(us) Græcorum Melkitarum (Latin)

Patriarch ([2017.06.20] 2017.06.22 – ...):

Patriarch Youssef Absi (Joseph Absi, M.S.P.) (72)

Auxiliary Bishop: Archbishop Joseph Absi, M.S.P. (72) (later Patriarch) (2014 – 2017.06.20)

as of 2018.11.07