SYRIA

Listing of Traditional Masses Which Have Been Approved under Papal Authority.

-- REPUBLIC OF SYRIA --

There are no traditional latin masses in Syria. The Republic is part of the cultural home of the Syrian Antiochene Rite and will be listed according to the divisions of all the rites present there and not just the Roman one.

Until more information becomes available to the site moderator, there will be no listing of Eastern Catholic masses in Syria. Following is a list of Eastern Catholic jurisdictions. There are every-Sunday traditional masses in each of them.

A. ANTIOCHENE RITE: SYRIAN USE

Exempt Archdiocese of Halab (Aleppo)

Exempt Archdiocese of Hassaké-Nisibi

Metropolitan Archdiocese of Damascus (no suffragans)

Metropolitan Archdiocese of Homs (no suffragans)

B. ANTIOCHENE RITE: MARONITE USE

[All the Maronite sees are directly subject to the Patriarchate and are not grouped into provinces (except those in South America which are suffragans to Latin Provinces).]

Archdiocese of Damascus

Archdiocese of Aleppo

Diocese of Al-Ladhiqiyah

C. ARMENIAN RITE

Suffragan to the Patriarchate of Cilicia, in Lebanon:

Archdiocese of Halab (Aleppo)

[Other Suffragan sees are outside Lebanon]

Exempt Archdiocese of Kamichlié/Qameshliyeh

D. BYZANTINE RITE: MELCHITE USE

Patriarchate of Antioch, Alexandria, and Jerusalem

(seats in Turkey, Egypt, and Israel; residence in Syria):

Suffragan Archeparchy: Latakia

Metropolitan Archeparchy of Bosra and Hauran (no suffragans)

Metropolitan Archeparchy of Damascus (no suffragans)

Metropolitan Archeparchy of Aleppo (no suffragans)

Metropolitan Archeparchy of Homs (no suffragans)

E. CHALDEAN RITE: BABYLONIAN USE

Exempt Diocese of Halab/Aleppo