Melkite Greek Catholic Archeparchy of Homs
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.
Territory and statistics
The archeparchy extends in the central part of Syria, corresponding roughly to the Hama Governorate and Homs Governorate.Its archeparchial see is the city of Homs, where is located the Cathedral of Our Lady of Peace. In Yabrud is located the co-cathedral of Saints Constantine and Helen.
It is currently governed by Archeparch Jean-Abdo Arbach, B.C.
The territory is divided into 21 parishes and there were 30,000 Melkite Catholics in 2010.
History
The archeparchy consists of territories that were once three separate ecclesiastical entities: Homs, Hama and Yabrud.When in 1724 the Melkite Greek Catholic Church was established, the three eparchies started gradually merged.
The union ultimately came during the patriarchate of Maximos III Mazloum and was contextually erected from eparchy of Homs to Metropolitan Archeparchy on March 4, 1849, as the titles of the Melkite Catholic Archeparchy of Hama and Melkite Catholic Eparchy of Jabrud were formally united with the new Metropolitanate.
Episcopal ordinaries
;Metropolitan Archeparchs of Homs- Ignace
- Jéremie
- Gregory Atta
- Flavien Khoury, Titular Archbishop of Palmyra of the Greek-Melkites
- Basil Khoury, Titular Archbishop of Sergiopolis
- Athanasios Toutoungi, previously Superior General of Basilian Alepian Order ; later Metropolitan Archeparch of Aleppo of the Greek-Melkites , Titular Archbishop of Tarsus of the Greek-Melkites
- Jean Bassoul, Basilian Salvatorian fathers, later Archeparch of Zahle and Forzol of the Greek-Melkites
- Denys Gaith, Basilian Chouerite Order of Saint John the Baptist
- Abraham Nehmé, B.C.
- Isidore Battikha, B.A., previously Archbishop of Pelusium of the Greek-Melkites, Auxiliary Bishop of Antioch of the Greek-Melkites
- Jean-Abdo Arbach, B.C.,, previously Titular Bishop of Hilta, Apostolic Exarch of Argentina of the Greek-Melkites, Titular Bishop of Palmyra of the Greek-Melkites