14 Facts About Maronite Church

Maronite Church is an Eastern Catholic sui iuris particular church in full communion with the pope and the worldwide Catholic Church, with self-governance under the Code of Canons of the Eastern Churches.

The current head of the Maronite Church is Patriarch Bechara Boutros al-Rahi, who was elected in March 2011 following the resignation of Patriarch Nasrallah Boutros Sfeir.

The current seat of the Maronite Church Patriarchate is in Bkerke, northeast of Beirut, Lebanon.

Establishment of the Maronite Church can be divided into three periods, from the 4th to the 7th centuries.

Six major traditions of the Catholic Maronite Church are Alexandrian, Antiochene, Armenian, Chaldean, Constantinopolitan, and Latin (Roman).

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Maronites who do not reside within a convenient distance to a local Maronite Church are permitted to attend other Catholic churches while retaining their Maronite membership.

Maronite Church Christianity has had a profound influence on what is Lebanon, and to a lesser degree Syria, Jordan and Palestine.

Saint Maron spent his life on a mountain in Syria, generally believed to be "Kefar-Nabo" on the mountain of Ol-Yambos in the Taurus Mountains, contemporary Turkey, becoming the cradle of the Maronite Church movement established in the Monastery of Saint Maron.

Maronite Church movement reached Lebanon when St Maron's first disciple, Abraham of Cyrrhus, who was called the "Apostle of Lebanon", set out to convert the non-Christians by introducing them to St Maron.

The Maronite Church, however, rejects the assertions that the Maronites were ever monothelites and broke communion with Rome; and the question remains a matter of controversy.

Elias El-Hayek attributes much of the confusion to Eutyches of Alexandria, whose Annals El-Hayek claimed contain erroneous material regarding the early Maronite Church, which was then picked up by William of Tyre and others.

The Maronite Church prospered from the protection and influence of the Khazins, but at the expense of interference in church affairs, particularly ecclesiastical appointments, which the Khazins saw as an extension of their political influence.

Maronite Church then organized an international conference in Paris, where the country was placed under the rule of a Christian governor named by the Ottoman Sultan, which restored a fragile peace.

The Maronite Church missal was first printed between 1592 and 1594 in Rome, although with fewer anaphoras.