Eparchy of Jbeil, Lebanon 🇱🇧 (Maronite Rite) (original) (raw)

History

• 1673.06.12: Established as Diocese of Jbeil
• 1768: Suppressed (to Diocese of Batroun–Jbeil)
• 1990.06.09: Restored as Diocese of Jbeil / Byblos / Byblien(sis) Maronitarum (Latin) (from the suppressed Diocese of Batroun–Jbeil and without ecclesiastical province)

Present Prelates

Bishop (2012.01.16 – ...):	**Bishop Michel Aoun (65)**Apostolic Visitator in Bulgaria and Romania of the Maronites

Ordinaries

Statistics (2022.12.31)

Population: 145,000 Catholics

Pastoral Centres: 83 parishes, 1 mission

Personnel: 112 priests (63 diocesan, 49 religious), 5 deacons, 124 religious (53 brothers, 71 sisters), 13 seminarians