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Apostolic Vicariate of Aleppo
Location
CountrySyria
Statistics
Parishes10
Information
RiteLatin Rite
CathedralChild Jesus
Current leadership
BishopGeorges Abou Khazen, OFM
Former Latin Cathedral of Aleppo, dedicated to Saint Francis of Assisi.

The Apostolic Vicariate of Aleppo (in Latin: Vicariatus Apostolicus Aleppensis) is an apostolic vicariate of the Roman Catholic Church and is immediately subject to the Holy See.[1][2] In 2010 there were 13,000 baptized.[citation needed] It is currently ruled by the bishop Georges Abou Khazen, OFM.

Territory

The Apostolic Vicariate extends its jurisdiction over the Catholics of the Latin Rite of Syria. The seat of the vicariate is the city of Aleppo, where the Cathedral of the Child Jesus, was opened by Cardinal Leonardo Sandri on 15 January 2011.[3]

The territory is divided into 10 parishes.

History

From the early decades of the seventeenth century some religious orders, particularly the Order of the Friars Minor Capuchin, the Carmelites and the Society of Jesus, settled in Syria and Aleppo. There were several conversions to Catholicism of the Latin rite, and this led Congregation for the Evangelization of Peoples to establish a diocese in Aleppo.

A first attempt to build an apostolic vicariate was in 1645. On 31 July 1645 was appointed bishop the Franciscan Giovanni Battista Dovara, which, however, "that he had achieved such a dignity, otherwise do not bother to go to his residence, despite the replicated excitations that he was moved by the Holy Congregation. Nor from that time on he was thought to depute a Latin bishop in that city".[4]: 300  The vicariate so he died in the bud: the jurisdiction of the Latin returned to the custodian of the Holy Land, as it was previously.

The apostolic vicariate was erected a second time on June 27, 1762, when Pope Clement XIII appointed the Congregation of the Mission member Frenchman Arnaud Bossu, who had been vicar apostolic to Algiers. In a Papal brief,[5] Bossu receives the title of Vicar Apostolic of Aleppo, with jurisdiction over the Eastern Europeans and the Latin Rite of the patriarchates of Antioch and Jerusalem, including the Maronite and Armenian patriarchates. The vicar, however, did not put his residence in Aleppo, but Antoura in Lebanon, and never received episcopal consecration. Also on this occasion, the vicariate was short-lived due to the suppression of the Jesuits in 1773 and the French Revolution, which, among other consequences, involved the removal of all religious orders not only in motherland, but also in mission lands.

After the Congress of Vienna, Congregation for the Evangelization of Peoples restored the apostolic vicariate in 1817, with the name of the Apostolic vicariate of Syria, Egypt, Arabia and Cyprus. It had jurisdiction over much of Catholic missions of the central and southern regions of the Ottoman Empire, namely: Syria, Lebanon, Cyprus, Palestine, the Arabian Peninsula, Egypt, Abyssinia (Ethiopia and Eritrea) and Nubia (Sudan). Also included the south-central part of Anatolia, including the cities of Antioch (Antakya) and Alexandretta (Iskenderun).

In 1839 it ceded part of its territory for the creation of the apostolic vicariate of Egypt and Arabia (today the Apostolic Vicariate of Alexandria of Egypt) and the Prefecture Apostolic of Abyssinia (today Ethiopian Catholic Archeparchy of Addis Abeba in the Ethiopian rite), and simultaneously took the name of the Vicariate Apostolic of Aleppo.

On October 4, 1847 ceded Palestine, Cyprus and the areas corresponding to the current Jordan for the restoration of the Patriarchate of Jerusalem of the Latins.

With the end of the Ottoman Empire, the birth of modern Turkey (1923) and especially with the passage of Hatay from Syria to Turkey (1938), under the Papal bull of Pope Pius XII Ad maius christifidelium of 5 October 1939 and Quo sacrorum of 9 December 1939, the Vicariate Apostolic of Aleppo lost the Turkish territories that passed to the Apostolic Vicariate of Istanbul.

On June 4, 1953 it gave another portion of territory for the creation of the Apostolic Vicariate of Beirut. From this moment the Vicariate Apostolic of Aleppo geographically corresponding to the Arab republic of Syria's territory. Only from this territorial change, the apostolic vicars have permanent residence in Aleppo, preferring previously reside in Lebanon.

The apostolic vicars are by law members of the Conference of the Latin Bishops of the Arab Regions.

Apostolic Vicars of Aleppo

  • Giovanni Battista Aresti de Dovara, O.F.M. (31 July 1645 - 1659 resigned).[6]
  • Vacant seat (1659 - 1672)
  • Arnaud Bossu, CM (17 June 1762 - 20 November 1765 resigned)
  • Vacant seat (1765 - 1818)
  • Aloisio Gandolfi, CM (13 January 1818 - 25 August 1825 deceased)
  • Giovanni Pietro Losana (23 January 1827 - 30 September 1833, appointed Bishop of Biella)
  • Jean-Baptiste Auvergne (March 29, 1833 - September 14, 1836 deceased)
  • Angelo Giuseppe Fazio, OFM Cap. (15 December 1837 - 13 December 1838 died)
  • Villardel Francisco, OFM (8 March 1839 - 19 June 1852 deceased)
  • Paul Brunoni (July 4, 1853 - November 23, 1858 appointed Vicar Apostolic of Constantinople)
  • Giuseppe Valerga(1858 - 2 December 1872 deceased) (apostolic administrator)
  • Serafino Milani, OFM (23 January 1874 - 21 December 1874 appointed Bishop of Pontremoli) (bishop-elect)
  • Luigi Piavi, OFM (November 13, 1876 - August 28, 1889 appointed Patriarch of Jerusalem of the Latins)
  • Gaudenzio Bonfigli, OFM (18 August 1890 - 25 February 1896 appointed Vicar Apostolic of Egypt)
  • Pierre Gonzales Charles Duval, OP † (February 25, 1896 - July 31, 1904 deceased)
  • Frediano Giannini, OFM (January 20, 1905 - February 12, 1936 resigned)
  • Vacant seat (1936 - 1967)
  • Akiki Bonaventure, OFM (28 June 1967 - 1 March 1973) (apostolic administrator)
  • Akiki Bonaventure, OFM (1 March 1973 - 1979 Retired)
  • Guerino Domenico Picchi, OFM (20 June 1980 - 9 July 1992 Retired)
  • Armando Bortolaso, SDB (9 July 1992 - 21 November 2002 Retired)
  • Giuseppe Nazzaro, OFM (21 November 2002 - 15 April 2013 Retired)
  • Georges Abou Khazen, OFM, from November 4, 2013

References

  1. ^ "Vicariate Apostolic of Alep (Beroea, Halab)" Catholic-Hierarchy.org. David M. Cheney. Retrieved February 29, 2016
  2. ^ "Apostolic Vicariate of Aleppo" GCatholic.org. Gabriel Chow. Retrieved February 29, 2016
  3. ^ [1]
  4. ^ Leonardus Lemmens, Hierarchia latina Orientis, mediante S. Congregatione de propaganda fide instituita (1622-1922), in Orientalia Christiana, vol. IV, n° 10 (1924), pp. 296-301
  5. ^ [2]
  6. ^ "Archbishop Giovanni Battista Aresti de Dovara, O.F.M" Catholic-Hierarchy.org. David M. Cheney. Retrieved July 21, 2016
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  • http://www.gcatholic.org/dioceses/diocese/alep5.htm
  • http://www.vatican.va/archive/aas/documents/AAS%2032%20%5B1940%5D%20-%20ocr.pdf, AAS 32 (1940), p. 115
  • Pius Bonifacius Gams, http://www.vatican.va/archive/aas/documents/AAS%2032%20%5B1940%5D%20-%20ocr.pdf, AAS 32 (1940), p. 116
  • Hubert Jedin, ed. (2002). Storia della Chiesa. Vol. VIII/1. Jaca Book. pp. 181–186.
  • C. Karalevsky, v. Alep, in, https://books.google.com/books?id=bVRRHogVx0sC&printsec=frontcover#v=onepage&q&f=false, vol. XII, Parigi 1953, coll. 110-112 e 114-115
  • http://gallica.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/bpt6k6561037d/f73.image
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