Melkite Greek Catholic Apostolic Exarchate of Venezuela (in Latin:Exarchatus Apostolicus Caracensis Graecorum Melkitarum, meaning - of Caracas) is aMelkite Greek Catholic Church missionary pre-diocesan jurisdiction orapostolic exarchate of theCatholic Church inVenezuela.

The apostolic exarchate is immediatelyexempt to theHoly See (notably theCongregation for the Oriental Churches) and not part of any (Melkite orLatin)ecclesiastical province, and encompasses the entirety of Venezuela.

Theexarch'scathedral is the Cathedral of St. George, in theepiscopal see and national capital cityCaracas, which also has the see of the LatinmetropolitanArchdiocese of Caracas, Santiago de Venezuela.

The apostolic exarchate extends to all the faithful of theMelkite Greek Catholic Church in Venezuela.

The territory is divided into five parishes and had 25,000 Melkite Catholics in 2010.

Melkite Catholic immigration in Venezuela, especially fromAleppo inSyria, dates back to the early decades of the twentieth century and intensified in particular between the two world wars.

In 1957 for the first time, a priest of theSociety of the Missionaries of St. Paul, Gabriel Dick, took pastoral care of the Melkite community in the country.

The Apostolic Exarchate of Venezuela was erected on 19 February 1990 with thepapal bullQuo longius^[2] ofPope John Paul II.^[3][4]

Conforming to the Eastern tradition,ordinaries are generally monks, so far all of theBasilian Aleppian Order (B.A.)

• Boutros Raï, B.A. (19 February 1990 – 7 June 1994 Died)
• Georges Kahhalé Zouhaïraty, B.A. (12 October 1995 – 2019 Retired)
• Joseph Antoine Khawam, B.A. (20 December 2019 – present)

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