Diocese of Our Lady of Lebanon of Los Angeles, USA (Maronite Rite)

Rite: Maronite (Antiochian)

Name: Our Lady of Lebanon of Los Angeles / Dominæ Nostræ Libanen(sis) in civititæ Angelorum in California Maronitarum (Latin)

Immediately Subject to the Patriarch

Depends on: Dicastery for the Eastern Churches

Special Churches

Cathedral: Our Lady of Mount Lebanon–St. Peter Cathedral, Los Angeles, California
Co-Cathedral: St. Raymond’s Co-Cathedral, St. Louis, Missouri
Former Cathedral: St. Maron Maronite Church, Detroit, Michigan
Minor Basilica, National Shrine: Basilica and National Shrine of Our Lady of Lebanon, North Jackson, Ohio
Shrines in the Extraordinary Jubilee of Mercy

Churches by City (40)

Saint-Maron de Montréal (↑), Saint Maron of Brooklyn (→), Nuestra Señora de los Mártires del Líbano en México (↓)

Present Prelates

Bishop (2013.07.10 – ...):

Bishop Abdallah Elias Zaidan, L.M. (59)

Ordinaries

Bishops of Our Lady of Lebanon of Los Angeles (Maronite Rite)

Bishop Abdallah Elias Zaidan, L.M. (59)
(2013.07.10 – ...)

Bishop of Our Lady of Lebanon of Los Angeles of the Maronites (USA)

Thy will be done

Born:	1963.03.10 (Qusayba-Metn, Lebanon)
Ordained Priest:	1986.07.20
Consecrated Bishop:	2013.09.28

Bishop of Our Lady of Lebanon of Los Angeles of the Maronites (USA) (2013.07.10 – ...)

Bishop Robert Joseph Shaheen
(2000.12.05 – 2013.07.10)

Born:	1937.06.03 (Danbury, CT, USA)
Ordained Priest:	1964.05.02
Consecrated Bishop:	2001.02.15
Died:	2017.08.09 († 80)

Bishop of Our Lady of Lebanon of Los Angeles of the Maronites (USA) (2000.12.05 – 2013.07.10)

Bishop John George Chedid
(1994.02.19 – 2000.11.20)

Born:	1923.07.04 (Lebanon)
Ordained Priest:	1951.12.21
Consecrated Bishop:	1981.01.25
Died:	2012.03.21 († 88)

Titular Bishop of Callinicum of the Maronites (1980.10.13 – 1994.02.19)

Auxiliary Bishop of Saint Maron of Brooklyn of the Maronites (USA) (1980.10.13 – 1994.02.19)

Bishop of Our Lady of Lebanon of Los Angeles of the Maronites (USA) (1994.02.19 – 2000.11.20)

Contact Info

Address: 1021 South Tenth St., St. Louis, MO 63104, USA

Phone: +1 (314) 231-1021

Website:

Statistics

Population: 47,480 Catholics (2020)

Statistics: 41 parishes, 6 missions, 58 priests (37 diocesan, 21 religious), 23 deacons, 36 lay religious (29 brothers, 7 sisters), 17 seminarians (2020)

History

1994.02.19: Established as Diocese of Our Lady of Lebanon of Los Angeles / Dominæ Nostræ Libanen(sis) in civititæ Angelorum in California Maronitarum (Latin) (from Diocese of Saint Maron of Brooklyn and without ecclesiastical province)

Maronite Diocese of

Our Lady of Lebanon of Los Angeles