Archeparchy of Homs (-Hama-Nabk) Archidioecesis Hemesena Syrorum (-Epiphaniensis-Nabikensis) | |
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![]() Holy Spirit Cathedral, Homs | |
Location | |
Country | Syria |
Statistics | |
Population |
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Parishes | 15 |
Information | |
Denomination | Catholic Church |
Sui iuris church | Syriac Catholic Church |
Rite | West Syriac Rite |
Established | 1678 |
Cathedral | Syriac Catholic Holy Spirit Cathedral |
Secular priests | 20 |
Current leadership | |
Pope | Sede vacante |
Patriarch | Ignatius Joseph III Younan |
Archeparch | Julian Yacoub Mourad |
The Syriac Catholic Archeparchy of Homs (-Hama-Nabk) (informally Homs of the Syriacs) is a nominally metropolitan archeparchy (Eastern Catholic archdiocese) of the Syriac Catholic Church sui iuris (Antiochian Rite in Syriac language) in Syria. It has no suffragans. The seat of the archeparchy is the Holy Ghost Cathedral in Homs, Syria.
Since March 2023, it is headed by Archbishop Julian Yacoub Mourad (born Jacques Mourad). [1]
Established in 1678 as (nominally) Metropolitan Archdiocese of Homs (or Emesa).
It later gained the merged-in titles of the suppressed eparchies of Hama of the Syriacs and Nabk of the Syriacs.This latter merger occurred some time after the death of its eparch Mar Matthew Nakkar in 1868.