Archdiocese of Latakia, Syria (Greek-Melkite Rite)

Name: Latakia (English) / Lattaquié (français) / Laodicea (Italiano) / Lattaqiya / Laodicen(us) Græcorum Melkitarum (Latin)

Immediately Subject to the Patriarch

Aleppo (↗), Homs (↘), Tripoli (↓)

Archbishop (2021.08.17 – ...):

Archbishop Georges Salim Khawam, M.S.P. (63)

Archbishops of Latakia (Greek-Melkite Rite)

Archbishop Georges Salim Khawam, M.S.P. (63)
(2021.08.17 – ...)

Archbishop of Latakia of the Greek-Melkites (Syria)

Archbishop of Latakia of the Greek-Melkites (Syria) (2021.08.17 – ...)

Archbishop Nikolaki Sawaf (80)
(2000.01.16 – 2021.08.17)

Archbishop emeritus of Latakia of the Greek-Melkites (Syria)

Archbishop of Latakia of the Greek-Melkites (Syria) ([2000.01.14] 2000.01.16 – 2021.08.17)

Archbishop Farès Maakaroun (82)
(1995.07.31 – 1999.12.18)

Archbishop of Latakia of the Greek-Melkites (Syria) (1995.07.31 – 1999.12.18)

Archbishop-Bishop of Nossa Senhora do Paraíso em São Paulo of the Greek-Melkites (Brazil) (1999.12.18 – 2014.07.21)

Archbishop Michel Yatim
(1981.08.18 – 1995.07.18)

Archbishop of Latakia of the Greek-Melkites (Syria) (1981.08.18 – 1995.07.18)

Archbishop Paul Achkar, M.S.P.
(1961.11.11 – 1981)

Superior General of Society of Missionaries of Saint Paul (1951 – 1961.11.11)

Archbishop of Latakia of the Greek-Melkites (Syria) ([1961.09.20] 1961.11.11 – 1981)

Population: 13,000 Catholics (2020)

Statistics: 16 parishes, 12 priests (diocesan), 8 lay religious (8 sisters), 6 seminarians (2020)

1961.04.28: Established as Archdiocese of Latakia (English) / Lattaquié (français) / Laodicea (Italiano) / Lattaqiya / Laodicen(us) Græcorum Melkitarum (Latin) (from Diocese of Tripoli, from the suppressed former Titular Episcopal See of Laodicea in Syria and without ecclesiastical province)

Greek-Melkite Archdiocese of