{{Short description|none}} <!-- "none" is preferred when the title is sufficiently descriptive; see [[WP:SDNONE]] --> {{Catholic Church by country}} The '''Catholic Church in Jordan''' is part of the worldwide [[Catholic Church]], under the spiritual leadership of the [[Pope]] in [[Rome]].
In 2023, [[Christians]] made up 2.1% of [[Jordan]]'s population.<ref name=US2022>[https://www.state.gov/reports/2022-report-on-international-religious-freedom/colombia US State Dept 2022 report]</ref> Of these half, or 1.06% of the country's population were Catholics (115,000 people).<ref>[https://www.catholicsandcultures.org/jordan Catholics and Culture website, retrieved 2023-08-08]</ref>
Catholics are divided in five Rites:
*80,000 [[Latin Church|Latin Catholic]]s (''Patriarchal Vicariate for Jordan'' of the [[Latin Patriarch of Jerusalem]]) *32,000 [[Melkite Greek Catholic Church|Melkite Catholics]] ([[Melkite Greek Catholic Archeparchy of Petra and Philadelphia in Amman]]) *1,500 [[Syriac Catholic Church|Syrian Catholics]] ([[Syriac Catholic Patriarchal Exarchate of Jerusalem]] covers also Jordan) *1,000 [[Maronite Church|Maronite Catholics]] ([[Maronite Catholic Patriarchal Exarchate of Jordan]]) *500 [[Armenian Catholic Church|Armenian Catholics]] ([[Armenian Catholic Patriarchal Exarchate of Jerusalem and Amman]] covers also Jordan)
There are also thousands of [[Chaldean Catholic]] ([[Chaldean Catholic Territory Dependent on the Patriarch of Jordan]]) refugees from Iraq.
The whole of the country for all Melkites forms a single [[Melkite Greek Catholic Archeparchy of Petra and Philadelphia in Amman|Archeparchy]]. Jordanian Catholics belonging to the Greek Catholic churches use the [[Melkite]] Rite, these are referred to as "Roum Catholiks" in Jordan (Roum or Rome referring to [[Byzantine]], while those following the standard rites of the [[Catholic Church]] are referred to as "Lateen" and belong to the [[Latin Patriarch of Jerusalem]].
An important Catholic charity in Jordan is [[Caritas Jordan]].
==Parishes== There are 32 Latin Catholic parishes in Jordan in 2023.<ref>{{Cite web |url=https://www.lpj.org/diocese/parishes-jordan |title=Latin Patriarchate Of Jerusalem website, retrieved 2023-08-28 |access-date=2023-09-06 |archive-date=2023-09-06 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230906133127/https://www.lpj.org/diocese/parishes-jordan |url-status=dead }}</ref> [[Melkite Greek Catholic Church]] has 28 parishes, Syrian Catholics have 3 parishes, Maronite Catholics have 2 parishes and Armenian Catholics have 1 parish. There are 66 Catholic parishes in all Jordan, belonging to five Catholic traditions.
==Papal visits== There have been 4 papal visits so far to Jordan:
[[Pope Paul VI]] visited Jordan in 1964, as part of the first papal pilgrimage to the Holy Land.
[[Pope John Paul II]] visited Jordan in 2000.
[[Pope Benedict XVI]] visited Jordan in 2009.<ref>[https://www.thenationalnews.com/mena/jordan/2019/01/30/reflecting-on-pope-benedict-xvis-visit-to-jordan-a-decade-ago/ The National News website, article dated December 31, 2022]</ref>
[[Pope Francis]] visited Jordan in 2014.
==See also== *[[Religion in Jordan]] *[[Christianity in Jordan]] *[[Eastern Orthodoxy in Jordan]] *[[Freedom of religion in Jordan]] *[[St. Joseph's Church, Amman|St. Joseph's Church]] *[[Church of the Redeemer, Amman|Church of the Redeemer]]
==References== {{reflist}}
==External links== *[http://www.catholic-hierarchy.org/country/jo.html Profile of the Catholic Church in Jordan] *[https://web.archive.org/web/20150211173912/http://popefrancisholyland2014.lpj.org/blog/2014/03/08/how-many-catholics-in-the-holy-land/popefrancisholyland2014.lpj.org Latin Patriarchate Of Jerusalem website (2014)]
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