St. George Cathedral – Oum Al Sumak<\/p>\n
History<\/strong><\/p>\n After the Council of Nicaea in 325, Christianity developed in Palestine, and in 358 there were already many churches, at the moment when the region was divided into three: Palestine First around Jerusalem; Second Palestine around Scythopolis, corresponding to today’s Galilee; Third Palestine around Petra and Philadelphia corresponding to the present Transjordan.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n Until the beginning of the 20th century, due to the still troubled situation in the region, Palestine Third (Jordan today) remained attached, in its northern part to Galilee, and in the rest of the country to the Hauran eparchy and That of Jerusalem.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n The autonomous Archeparchy of Petra, Philadelphia and all of Transjordan was re-established on 2 May 1932. The Jordanian territory has an area of about 89,000 square kilometers. The population, which dates back to very different origins, was gradually unified by Arabic language and culture.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n The resources of the country are, in the cultivable band, wheat, barley, wines, olive oil, and in its subsoil phosphate exported to Europe and several countries of the Far East.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n List of Archbishops:<\/strong><\/p>\n 1932-1948\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Paul Selman<\/p>\n 1948-1970\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Michel Assaf<\/p>\n 1970-1992\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Saba Youakim<\/p>\n 1992-2007\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 S.E. Mgr Georges el Murr.<\/p>\n 2007-2015\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 S.E. Mgr Yasser el Ayyash<\/p>\n 2015 – 2018\u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0Elie Haddad (Patriarchal Administrator)<\/p>\n 2018 …\u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0Joseph Gebara<\/p>\n <\/p>\n General Statistics<\/strong><\/p>\n Approximate number of inhabitants: 5,500,000, the vast majority of whom are Muslim<\/p>\n Approximate number of Christians: 300,000 of whom the majority is Orthodox<\/p>\n Number of Greek-Melkite Catholic faithful: 31,000<\/p>\n Number of eparchial priests: 23 (7 bachelors and 16 married, including 5 retired).<\/p>\n Number of nuns serving the Archeparchy: 24<\/p>\n <\/p>\n Melkite Greek Catholic Archeparchy<\/strong><\/p>\n St. Georges Cathedral Address : Ibn Tawous St., Amman, Jordan<\/p>\n Facebook page : https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/GreekCatholicChurchJo\/8<\/p>\n Phone\/Fax : +962 6 581 5739<\/p>\n \u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n H.E. Archbishop Joseph Gebara \u2013 Patriarchal Administrator of Petra and Philadelphia<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" St. George Cathedral – Oum Al Sumak History After the Council of Nicaea in 325, Christianity developed in Palestine, and in 358 there were already many churches, at the moment when the region was divided into three: Palestine First around Jerusalem; Second Palestine around Scythopolis, corresponding to today’s Galilee; Third […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":4125,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"give_campaign_id":0,"site-sidebar-layout":"default","site-content-layout":"default","ast-site-content-layout":"default","site-content-style":"default","site-sidebar-style":"default","ast-global-header-display":"","ast-banner-title-visibility":"","ast-main-header-display":"","ast-hfb-above-header-display":"","ast-hfb-below-header-display":"","ast-hfb-mobile-header-display":"","site-post-title":"","ast-breadcrumbs-content":"","ast-featured-img":"","footer-sml-layout":"","ast-disable-related-posts":"","theme-transparent-header-meta":"default","adv-header-id-meta":"","stick-header-meta":"","header-above-stick-meta":"","header-main-stick-meta":"","header-below-stick-meta":"","astra-migrate-meta-layouts":"default","ast-page-background-enabled":"default","ast-page-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""}},"ast-content-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""}},"footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1529","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-jordan"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.melkitecouncil.com\/Catholics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1529","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.melkitecouncil.com\/Catholics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.melkitecouncil.com\/Catholics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.melkitecouncil.com\/Catholics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.melkitecouncil.com\/Catholics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1529"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.melkitecouncil.com\/Catholics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1529\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4126,"href":"https:\/\/www.melkitecouncil.com\/Catholics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1529\/revisions\/4126"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.melkitecouncil.com\/Catholics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/4125"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.melkitecouncil.com\/Catholics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1529"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.melkitecouncil.com\/Catholics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1529"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.melkitecouncil.com\/Catholics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1529"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
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