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

-- REPUBLIC OF LEBANON --

There are no traditional latin masses in the Lebanon. The Republic is the cultural home of the Maronite 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 Lebanon. Following is a list of Eastern Catholic jurisdictions. There are every-Sunday traditional masses in each of them.

A. ANTIOCHENE RITE: MARONITE USE

Maronite Patriarchate of Antioch, Alexandria, and Jerusalem

(seats in Turkey, Egypt, and Israel; residence in Lebanon)

[N.B. Maronite sees are not grouped into provinces; all their jurisdictions are exempt sees except for those which are suffragans to Latin Metropolitan Archdioceses.]

Archdiocese of Antelias

Archdiocese of Tripoli

Archdiocese of Tyre

Archdiocese of Beirut

Diocese of Baalbek-Deir El Ahmar

Diocese of Batrun and Sarba (residing see of the the Patriarch)

Diocese of Saïda (partly in Israel)

Diocese of Jbeil

Diocese of Jounieh

Diocese of Zahleh

B. ANTIOCHENE RITE: SYRIAN USE

Syrian Catholic Patriarchate of Antioch

(seat in Turkey; residence in Lebanon)

Patriarchal Vicariate of Lebanon (resident jurisdiction of the Patriarch)

C. ARMENIAN RITE

Patriarchal Province of Cilicia

Patriarchate of Cilicia

Suffragan Diocese: Beirut (residence of Patriarch)

[Other Suffragan sees are outside Lebanon]

D. BYZANTINE RITE: MELCHITE USE

Suffragan to the Patriarchate of Antioch, Alexandria, and Jerusalem (seats in Turkey, Egypt, and Israel; residence in Syria):

Archeparchy of of Baalbek

Archeparchy of Zahleh and Furzul

[Other suffragan sees are outside Lebanon.]

Province of Tyre

Archeparchy of Tyre

Suffragan Eparchies:

Baniyas

Saida

Tripoli

Province of Beirut and Gibrail