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Maronites first migrated to Cyprus in the 8th century, and there are approximately 5,800 Maronites on the island today, the vast majority in the Republic of Cyprus. [17] The community historically spoke Cypriot Maronite Arabic , [ 76 ] [ 77 ] but today Cypriot Maronites speak the Greek language , with the Cypriot government designating Cypriot ...
In 1776, the patriarchate of Lebanon lists 500 Maronites. The 1841 Ottoman census of Talaat Effendi gave a figure of 1,400 Maronites, including 100 in the kaza of Morfou, 1,000 in that of Lapithos-Cérines, 300 in that of Nicosia. In the 1891 census, out of 209,286 Cypriots 1,131 were Maronites, the figure rose to 1,350 in 1921 and 1,704 in 1931.
Maronite Catholic Eparchy of Our Lady of the Martyrs of Lebanon in Mexico City (in Latin: Eparchy Dominae Nostrae Martyrum Libanensium in Civitate Mexicana Maronitarum) is an eparchy of the Maronite Church immediately subject to the Holy See in Mexico.
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In the 12th century, about 40,000 Maronites resided in the area around Antioch and modern-day Lebanon. [34] By the 21st century, estimates suggest that the Maronite diaspora population may have grown to more than twice the estimated 2 million Maronites living in their historic homelands in Lebanon, Syria, and Israel. [57]
Maronites (Mâruniyya مارونية in Arabic, Marunoye ܡܪܘܢܝܐܶ; in Syriac) are members of the Maronite Church, historically centred in Lebanon, which is an Eastern Rite church in full communion with the Pope of the Roman Catholic Church.
On 5 May 1895, two years after the International Eucharistic Congress held in Jerusalem, was inaugurated in the Holy Land a Patriarchal Vicariate to meet Lebanese Maronites that lived there [5] until then directly dependent on the Maronite Catholic Archeparchy of Tyre.
The Maronite Catholic Archeparchy of Antelias [2] (informally Antelias of the Maronites) (in Latin: Archieparchia Anteliensis Maronitarum) is a Maronite (Antiochian Rite, Arabic), non-Metropolitan Archeparchy (Eastern Catholic Archdiocese) in northern Lebanon.