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	Maronite Patriarchs
		Patriarch Hobeish insisted upon the application of the Code of the Lebanese Council in 1736, Especially as regards to the religious instruction and preaching, and the encouragement of seminaries for the education of the clergy.
		Amir Haydar Abi-Lama was chosen by the Patriarch to be the governor of the Maronite district.
		Patriarch Hoyek was born and raised in Helta- Kefar-Hay Batrun in the vicinity of the headquarters of the first Maronite Patriarch, Saint John Maron whom Patriarch Hoyek resembled with his strong and energetic character, his ardent apostolic zeal, his intellectual power, his solid evangelical virtues and his wise leadership.
	www.kobayat.org /data/maronites/patriarchs.htm (5694 words)

	The Patriarchs in Maronite History (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		The identity of the Maronite Church is inseparable from the role of the Patriarch.
		According to Maronite tradition, John Maron was elected and consecrated by the Papal delegate to be Patriarch of Antioch.
		Patriarch Joseph Habib al-Aqouri (1644-48) wrote a defense of the Gregorian calendar, a Syriac grammar with interpretation in Karshuni (or Garshuni, Arabic written with Syriac letters), various hymns in Arabic, and perhaps a tract on the primacy of the Roman Pontiff.
	www.mari.org /JMS/january01/The_Patriarchs_in_Maronite_History.htm (3243 words)

	maronites history (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		In the year 518, the Patriarch of Antioch, Severius, was deposed from his see for having denied the two distinct natures in Christ and for rejecting the decrees of the Council of Chalcedon.
		For three centuries the Maronites were cut off from the rest of the world, blockaded with in their mountains; and when the Crusaders swarmed into the East, their discovery of the Maronites came as a surprise.
		In 1786, the Maronite Synod of Bishops declared that Bkerki should be a dependency of the residence at Kannoubine.
	www.maronitechurch.org.uk /history/html/maronites.html (6074 words)

	His Holiness Patriarch Sfeir
		From 1961 to 1986 his Holiness was the Patriarchal vicar and secretary of the Maronite Patriarchate.
		His Holiness was elected as the Maronite Patriarch of Antioch and the whole East, in April 27, 1986.
		The Maronites have existed largely exclusively in Lebanon for centuries and have formed a strong attachment to the region, seeing their identity and the nation's as intertwined.
	www.tanbourit.com /patriarch_sfeir.htm (511 words)

	Phoenicia: The Maronites and Lebanon, A Brief History
		The Maronites were loyal supporters of the decrees of the Council in the region, and as a result, the opponents of Chalcedon showed themselves bitter enemies of the Maronites and began to brutally persecuted them.
		The sojourn of the Maronite Patriarchs in the district of Jbeil lasted for 502 years, that is to say, from 938 to 1440 A.D. and these were years of constant turmoil as the plains and mountains Lebanon became a battle field for the Crusaders and the army of Islam.
		The Maronites were also described by Jaques de Vitry in his 'Historia Hierosolymitana' of the twelfth century 'men armed with bows and arrows, and skilful in battle, inhabit the mountains in considerable numbers, in the province of Phoenicia, not far from the town of Byblos.
	phoenicia.org /maronites.html (9496 words)

	Dossier: Nasrallah Boutros Sfeir (May 2003)
		Most historians believe that the Maronites originated as a Monothelite Christian sect in the Orontes valley of Syria and were driven to the Lebanese highlands by Byzantine or Arab Muslim invaders sometime between the seventh and eleventh centuries.
		Whatever its origins, the Maronite Church was well established when the Crusaders reached Mount Lebanon in the twelfth century and adopted doctrinal communion with the Roman Catholic Church in 1180 (a union which did not become institutionalized until the sixteenth century).
		Although the Taif Accord stipulated a power-sharing arrangement that gave Maronites the presidency and a large (relative to their demographic weight) share of parliamentary seats, both were monopolized by a narrow stratum of pro-Syrian politicians with little or no support within the Maronite community.
	www.meib.org /articles/0305_ld.htm (6992 words)

	The Maronites and LebanonMaronite history is coloured with the romance that attaches itself to a struggle of a ...
		Maronite history is coloured with the romance that attaches itself to a struggle of a determined people.
		Simon Stylite, Maronites were ambushed and 350 monks were put to the sword, even though some of them had taken refuge at the altar.
		But the first to act on the idea was Patriarch Hanna EL HAJJ, who built the Patriarchal residence in Dimane now known as the Old Residence, in the centre of the village, while near it he erected the church of St John-Maron, now the parish Church.
	www.10452lccc.com /hist.geo/maronitesandlebanon.htm (9428 words)

	Patriarchs Last 200 Years
		Patriarch Yusif Al-Khazen was elected at Dayr Mayfuq, on the 8th of August 1845.
		In the first few years of the Patriarchate of Bulos Mass'ad (1857-1859), the people of Kesrawan revolted against the al-Khazen family, whose members had been strengthening Christianity in Kesrawan since the time of Fakhr-el-Din.
		The Patriarch at the Peace Congress in Versailles (1919):
	www.saintsharbelnj.us /maronite200years.htm (5269 words)

	Jounieh the bay, Old Souk, Jeita grotto, Bkerkeh, Maronite patriarch residence
		It was in this bay that the men-of-war of France, the protecting Power, cast anchor before visit was paid to the Patriarch of the Maronites in his residence up at Bkerki during the time of the Mutassarifs.
		Throughout all these times the Maronite patriarch has always enjoyed an undisputed religious and political authority in the region.
		By the Ottoman authorities in Constantinople and by the western powers, by the French Republic as formerly by the kings of France, he was always regarded as the authorised representative of his people, including all the Christians taken together.
	www.lebanonpanorama.com /frame_src/english/jounieh.html (480 words)

	Qadisha Valley and Cedars Forest: A Natural & Spiritual Sanctuary (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		Rock-cut chapels, grottoes, and hermitages, many painted with frescoes dating back to the 12
		Among the important monasteries located in the valley is Deir Qannoubine, the seat of the Maronite patriarchs from 1400-1790 AD.Seventeen Maronite patriarchs (the head of the Maronite church under the Pope in Rome) are buried in a chapel near the monastery, their names carved in Syriac script on a marble plaque identifying the site.
		century hermitage where the Lebanese Maronite Order was founded in 1695, and Deir Mar Antonios Qozhaya, home to Lebanon’s first printing press in the 16
	www.destinationlebanon.com /qadishamore.asp (485 words)

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