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The Melkite Greek Catholic Church, or Melkite Byzantine Catholic Church, is an Eastern Catholic church in full communion with the Holy See as part of the worldwide Catholic Church. Its chief pastor is Patriarch Youssef Absi, headquartered at the Cathedral of Our Lady of the Dormition in Damascus, Syria. The Melkites, who are Byzantine Rite Catholics, trace their history to the early Christians of Antioch, formerly part of Syria and now in Turkey, of the 1st century AD, where Christianity was introduced by Saint Peter.
The Catholic Church in Syria is part of the worldwide Catholic Church under the spiritual leadership of the Pope in Rome.
This is a historical list of all bishops of the Catholic Church whose sees were within the present-day boundaries of the United States, with links to the bishops who consecrated them. It includes only members of the United States Conference of Catholic Bishops and their predecessors.
Melkite Greek Catholic Archeparchy of Akka is a diocese of the Melkite Greek Catholic Church, directly subject to the Melkite Catholic Patriarchate of Antioch. Its cathedral episcopal see is St. Elijah Greek-Melkite Cathedral, in Haifa.
Fares Maakaroun, was an archbishop of the Melkite Greek Catholic Eparchy of Nossa Senhora do Paraíso em São Paulo in Brazil from 1999 to 2014, when presented his apostolic resignation.
Joseph Kallas, SMSP is Emeritus Melkite Archbishop of the Melkite Greek Catholic Archeparchy of Beirut and Byblos.
Joseph Gébara is a Lebanese Catholic archeparch of the Byzantine Rite, and current Archeparch of the Melkite Greek Catholic Archeparchy of Petra and Philadelphia in Amman.
Habib Bacha, SMSP was Melkite Archbishop of the Melkite Greek Catholic Archeparchy of Beirut and Byblos.
Boulos Nassif Borkhoche (born Paul Victor Borkhoche, SMSP was an archbishop of the Melkite Greek Catholic Archeparchy of Bosra and Hauran in Syria.
Jean-Clément Jeanbart is a Melkite archbishop, who currently serves as the Archbishop of the Melkite Greek Catholic Archeparchy of Aleppo and Apostolic Visitor in Western Europe of the Greek Melkites.
Athanasios Toutoungi was an archbishop of the Melkite Greek Catholic Archeparchy of Aleppo in Syria.
Néophytos Edelby was Archbishop of the Melkite Greek Catholic Archeparchy of Aleppo of the Melkite Greek Catholic Church.
Pierre-Macario Saba was Archbishop of the Melkite Greek Catholic Archeparchy of Aleppo in Syria.
Elias Nijmé, BA was Archbishop of the Melkite Greek Catholic Archeparchy of Tripoli in Lebanon.
Melkite Greek Catholic Archeparchy of Latakia is an eparchy of the Melkite Greek Catholic Church immediately subject to the Holy See. In 2009 there were 14,500 baptized. It is currently governed by archeparch Georges Khawam.
Paul Achkar was the first Archbishop of the Melkite Greek Catholic Archeparchy of Latakia in Lebanon.
Melkite Greek Catholic Archeparchy of Homs is a nominally Metropolitan Archeparchy of the Melkite Greek Catholic Church in central Syria. It was established on March 4, 1849 and has no suffragan, but two merged-in eparchial titles.
Isidore Battikha is a Syrian archbishop emeritus of the Melkite Greek Catholic Archeparchy of Homs in Syria.
Jean Mansour, SMSP was Bishop and administrator in the Melkite Patriarchate of Antioch.
François Ayoub was a Syrian Archbishop of the Maronite Catholic Archeparchy of Aleppo and the Maronite Catholic Archeparchy of Cyprus.
