Eparchy of Aleppo (Chaldean) Eparchia Aleppensis Chaldaeorum | |
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| Location | |
| Country | Syria |
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| Parishes | 14 |
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| Denomination | Chaldean Catholic Church |
| Rite | East Syriac Rite |
| Established | 1957 |
| Current leadership | |
| Pope | Leo XIV |
| Patriarch | Louis Raphael I Sako |
| Eparch | Antoine Audo |
TheChaldean Catholic Eparchy of Aleppo (alsoHalab in Arabic, orBeroa as in Antiquity) is aneparchy of theChaldean Catholic Church covering the whole country ofSyria.
The eparchy extends its jurisdiction over the faithful of the Chaldean Catholic Church of Syria. It is directly subject to theChaldean Catholic Patriarch of Babylon (actually inBaghdad,Iraq), not part of anyecclesiastical province.
Itscathedral episcopal see is the St. Joseph's Cathedral, inAleppo, the largest city in Syria.
The territory is divided into 14 parishes.
A colony of Chaldean Christians was certainly present in Aleppo in the early 16th century, most probably from the city ofDiyarbakır in UpperMesopotamia. In 1723 theChaldean patriarchJoseph III obtained from theOttoman government afirman who recognized his jurisdiction over the Chaldean faithful of the city.However, the number of the Chaldean faithful remained always reduced; at the beginning of the twentieth century the community included only 250 people. In 1901, however,Pope Leo XIII authorized the institution of a patriarchal vicariate, directly dependent on the patriarch.
The eparchy was erected on July 3, 1957, with thebull Almost pastor[2] ofPope Pius XII, with which the pontiff suppressed theChaldean Catholic Eparchy of Gazireh of the Chaldeans and established the new ecclesiastical circumscription.
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