Parishes 11 Pope Francis Bishop Yousif Habash Established 6 November 1995 Population - Catholics 16,000 | Denomination Syriac Catholic Church Territory United States of America Cathedral St. Joseph Cathedral Parish 11 Rite West Syrian Rite | |
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Ecclesiastical province Eastern Catholic Eparchies Immediately Subject to the Holy See | ||
The Syriac Catholic Eparchy of Our Lady of Deliverance is an eparchy of the Syriac Catholic Church, an Eastern Catholic church in full communion with the Catholic Church.
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The territory of the eparchy encompasses the entire United States. It has its HQ in Newark, New Jersey, and has its Cathedral episcopal see: St. Joseph Syriac Catholic Cathedral, in Bayonne, New Jersey. It was estimated to have 16,000 faithful. Bishop Yousif Benham Habash has led the eparchy since April 2010.
History
Until 1995, Syriac Catholic congregations in the United States and Canada were under the jurisdiction of the local Latin Rite bishops of the Roman Catholic Church.
On November 6, 1995, Pope John Paul II erected the Eparchy of Our Lady of Deliverance, immediately subject to the Holy See, and appointed bishop Joseph Younan as the first eparch, with his see at Newark, New Jersey.
In 2009, Bishop Younan was elected as Primate of the Syriac Catholic Church and Patriarch of Antioch and all the East of the Syrians. In 2010, Pope Benedict XVI appointed Bishop Yousif Benham Habash as the second eparch.
On 7 January 2016, it lost its (southeastern) Canadian territory (then five communities in Ontario and Quebec provinces) to the newly erected Syrian Catholic Apostolic Exarchate for Canada.
Episcopal Ordinaries
(Syriac Rite)
- Joseph Younan (November 6, 1995 – January 20, 2009), later Patriarch of Antioch of the Syriacs (actually in Beirut, Lebanon) ([2009.01.20] 2009.01.22 – ...) and President of the Synod of the Syriac Catholic Church (2009.01.22 – ...)
- Yousif Benham Habash (April 12, 2010 – ...)
Current status
As of 2016, the eparchy is estimated to have 16,000 faithful in 8 parishes and 6 missions.
Congregations are located in the following cities :