Syriac Catholic Patriarchal Exarchate of Jerusalem


The Syriac Catholic Patriarchal Exarchate of Jerusalem is a Patriarchal exarchate of the Syriac Catholic Church for Palestine and Jordan.
It is directly dependent on the Syriac Catholic Patriarch of Antioch, but not part of his or any other ecclesiastical province, and depends in Rome on the Congregation for the Oriental Churches.
Its cathedral episcopal see is the World Heritage Site Church of Saint Thomas, Jerusalem, Holy Land.

History

Established in 1991 as Patriarchal Exarchate of Jerusalem, on territory previously without proper Ordinary of the particular church sui iuris, which was governed as Patriarchal Vicariate of Jerusalem of the Syriacs.

Ordinaries

All West Syriac Rite.

Patriarchal Exarchs of Jerusalem (Palestine and Jordan)