Syriac Catholic Eparchy of Our Lady of Deliverance of Newark

Syriac Catholic Eparchy of Our Lady of Deliverance Eparchia Dominae Nostrae Liberationis Novarcensis Syrorum
St. Joseph Cathedral
Location
Territory	United States of America
Ecclesiastical province	Eastern Catholic Eparchies Immediately Subject to the Holy See
Statistics
Population - Catholics	16,000
Parishes	11
Information
Denomination	Syriac Catholic Church
Rite	West Syrian Rite
Established	November 6, 1995 (22 years ago)
Cathedral	St. Joseph Cathedral
Current leadership
Pope	Francis
Bishop	Yousif Benham Habash
Website
http://WWW.SyriacCatholic.US

The Syriac Catholic Eparchy of Our Lady of Deliverance is an eparchy of the Syriac Catholic Church, an Eastern Catholic church in full communion with the Catholic Church.

The territory of the eparchy encompasses the entire United States. It has its HQ in Newark, New Jersey, and has its Cathedral episcopal see: St. Joseph Syriac Catholic Cathedral, in Bayonne, New Jersey. It was estimated to have 16,000 faithful. Bishop Yousif Benham Habash has led the eparchy since April 2010.

Until 1995, Syriac Catholic congregations in the United States and Canada were under the jurisdiction of the local Latin Rite bishops of the Roman Catholic Church.

On November 6, 1995, Pope John Paul II erected the Eparchy of Our Lady of Deliverance, immediately subject to the Holy See, and appointed bishop Joseph Younan as the first eparch, with his see at Newark, New Jersey.

In 2009, Bishop Younan was elected as Primate of the Syriac Catholic Church and Patriarch of Antioch and all the East of the Syrians. In 2010, Pope Benedict XVI appointed Bishop Yousif Benham Habash as the second eparch.

On 7 January 2016, it lost its (southeastern) Canadian territory (then five communities in Ontario and Quebec provinces) to the newly erected Syrian Catholic Apostolic Exarchate for Canada.