Directory of The Catholic Church In The Holy Land Jerusalem 2008

Judea and Galilee

-- Akko: Saint Francis Convent, Latin parish

Number of religious: 1

Superior and Pastor: Rev. Quirico Caella, O.F.M.

Address: Terra Sancta Convent

P.O.B. 1023

24110 Akko

Tel: [phone] (friary)

(04) 991 03 68 (school)

Fax: [phone]

Annexes

-- Secondary school (co-educational):

Tel: [phone]

Fax: [phone]

-- Saint Mary of the Rosary Residence, Haifa
-- Beit Sahour: Shepherds Field, shrine, dependent on the Friary of St. Catherine in Bethlehem

Person in charge: Rev. Arkadiusz Blecharczyk, O.F.M.

Address: Terra Sancta Convent – Beit Sahour

P.O.B. 45

Bethlehem

Tel: [phone]

-- Bethany – Al'Azarieh: Shrine of Saint Lazarus

Number of religious: 2

Superior: Rev. Michael Sarquah, O.F.M.

Address: Shrine of Saint Lazarus

Terra Sancta Convent

P.O.B. 186 – Bethany

91001 Jerusalem

Tel: [phone]; Fax: [phone]
-- Bethlehem: Convent of Saint Catherine, Latin parish, Shrine of the Nativity of J.C., Seminary

Number of religious: 18

Superior: Rev. Jerzy Kraj, O.F.M.

Local address: Terra Sancta Convent – Nativity Square

P.O.B. 45

Bethlehem

Mailing address: Terra Sancta Convent

P.O.B. 588

91001 Jerusalem

Tel: [phone]

Fax: [phone] (friary)

(02) 276 56 97 (sacristy)

(02) 277 61 72 (sisters)

Novice master: Rev. Noel Muscat, O.F.M.

Tel: [phone] (novitiate)

Pastor: Rev. Samuel Fayez Fahim, O.F.M.

Tel: [phone]; Fax: [phone]

Annexes:

-- Casa Nova

Director: Rev. Seweryn Lubecki, O.F.M.

Address: Franciscan House for Pilgrims – Casa Nova

P.O.B. 996

Bethlehem

Tel: [phone]

Fax: [phone]

E-mail: [e-mail]

-- Orient Palace Hotel (part of the Casa Nova complex)

Director: Rev. Seweryn Lubecki, O.F.M.

Address: Orient Palace Hotel

P.O.B. 996

Bethlehem

Tel: [phone]

Fax: [phone]

E-mail: [e-mail]

-- Grottos of Saint Jerome, shrine next to the Grotto of the Nativity

-- Milk Grotto, shrine in Bethlehem. Tel: [phone]

-- House of Saint Joseph, chapel next to the cemetery of the Syrian Orthodox in Bethlehem

-- David's Cisterns, headquarters of the Catholic Action of Bethlehem. Tel: [phone]

-- Ruins of a Byzantine monastery at Khirbet Abu Ghuneim.

-- Ruins of the Georgian monastery of Saint Theodore at Bir el-Qatt

-- Cana: Shrine of the First Miracle, Latin parish

Number of religious: 3

Superior and Pastor: Rev. Casimiro Frapporti, O.F.M.

Address: Latin Church

P.O.B. 1580

16930 Kafr Kanna

Tel: [phone] (friary)

(04) 641 80 39 (sisters)

Fax: [phone]

Annex: Chapel of Saint Bartholomew (Kanissa Al-'Ajaje), Cana
-- Capernaum: House of Peter, Synagogue

Number of religious: 4

Superior: Rev. Jerome Vour-Dery, O.F.M.

Address: Minzar Terra Sancta – Kfar Nahum

P.O.B. 2257

14122 Tiberias

Tel: [phone] (friary)

[phone] (sisters)

Fax: [phone]

Annex: Shrine of Magdala at Migdal (Lake Tiberias)
-- Ein Karem: Shrine of the Visitation

Number of religious: 3

Superior: Rev. Wladyslaw Brzezinski, O.F.M.

Address: Church of the Visitation

P.O.B. 1718 – Terra Sancta

91170 Ein Karem – Jerusalem

Tel: [phone]; Fax: [phone]

-- Ein Karem: Shrine of Saint John the Baptist "in Montana," Novitiate

Number of religious: 8

Superior: Rev. Nicolas Marquez, O.F.M.

Address: Convent of St. John "in Montana"

P.O.B. 1704 - Terra Sancta

91170 Ein Karem – Jerusalem

Tel: [phone](friary)

(02) 632 30 29(sisters)

Fax: [phone]

E-mail: [e-mail]
Annex: Terra Sancta Lodge

Director: Rev. Nicolas Marquez, O.F.M.

Address: Terra Sancta Lodge

P.O.B. 1730

91170 Ein Karem – Jerusalem

Tel: [phone] (office)

(02) 641 21 00 (guests)

-- Ein Karem: Shrine of Saint John the Baptist in the Desert

Number of religious: 2

Superior: Rev. Sergio Olmedo Flores, O.F.M.

Address: Convent of Saint John in the Desert

Terra Sancta

P.O.B. 186 – Even Sapir

91001 Jerusalem

Tel: [phone]; Fax: [phone]

Mobile: [phone] (Fr. Sergio)

E-mail: [e-mail]

Annex: Shrine of Saint Elizabeth in the Desert
-- Emmaus-Qubeibeh: Shrine, satellite of the Latin parish in Jerusalem

Number of religious: 2

Superior and Pastor: Rev. Franciszek Wiater, O.F.M.

Terra Sancta Convent

P.O.B. 186 – Emmaus-Qubeibeh

91001 Jerusalem

Tel: [phone] (friary)

(02) 247 36 15 (superior)

(02) 247 36 13 (sisters)

Fax: [phone]

-- Jaffa: Saint Anthony of Padua, Latin parish

Number of religious: 3

Superior and Pastor: Rev. Toufic Bou Merhi, O.F.M.

Address: Saint Anthony Church

Terra Santa

51 Yeffet St.

P.O.B. 8423

61083 Jaffa-Tel Aviv

Tel: [phone] (friary)

Fax: [phone] (friary)

Tel: [phone] (Secondary School)

Fax: [phone] (Secondary School)

Tel: [phone] (Elementary School)

Fax: [phone] (Elementary School)

Elementary Terra Santa School Address:

80 Yeffet St.

P.O.B. 41160

61411 Jaffa-Tel Aviv
E-mail: [e-mail]

Website: www.jaffatsschool.com (School)

www.jaffatsparish.com (Parish)
-- Jaffa: Saint Peter

Number of religious: 4

Superior: Rev. Narcyz Klimas, O.F.M.

Address: Saint Peter's Church – Terra Sancta

P.O.B. 8467

61083 Jaffa

Tel: [phone]; Fax: [phone]

-- Jericho: Good Shepherd, Latin parish

Number of religious: 2

Superior and Pastor: Rev. Feras Hijazin, O.F.M.

Good Shepherd Convent

Jaffa Street

P.O.B. 23 – Terra Sancta

Jericho

Tel: [phone] (friary)

(02) 232 28 16 (school)

Fax: [phone] (friary)

(02) 232 60 61 (school)

Annex: Residence and Chapel of the Baptism (next to the Jordan)
Migdal Ha'Emeq (Mujeidel): Chapel of Saint Gabriel the Archangel

Number of religious: 1

Superior: Rev. Jack Karam, O.F.M.

Address: Minzar Terra Sancta

P.O.B. 673

10556 Migdal Ha'Emeq

Tel: [phone]

(04) 654 25 33 (church)

Fax: [phone]

-- Mount Tabor: Transfiguration, shrine

Number of religious: 3

Superior: Rev. Wojciech Boloz, O.F.M.

Address: Basilica of the Transfiguration

Terra Sancta Convent

P.O.B. 16 - Mount Tabor

16100 Nazareth

Tel: [phone]; Fax: [phone]

Annexes:

-- Casa Nova

Director: Comunity of Mondo X

Tel: [phone]

Fax: [phone]

-- Chapel Descendentibus

-- Ruins of the church of Daburiya
-- Nazareth: Annunciation, Latin parish, shrine

Number of religious: 14

Superior: Rev. Ricardo Bustos, O.F.M.

Pastor: Rev. Amjad Sabbara, O.F.M.

Address: Basilica of the Annunciation

Terra Sancta Convent – Casa Nova Street

P.O.B. 23

16100 Nazareth

Tel: [phone] (friary)

Fax: [phone] (friary)

Tel: [phone] (parish)

Fax: [phone] (parish)

Tel: [phone] (sisters)

Fax: [phone] (booking of the Holy

Masses)

Tel: [phone] (school)

Fax: [phone] (school)

Annexes

-- Saint Joseph's Church (Church of the Nutrition), shrine (Casa Nova St.)

-- Mensa Christi Chapel (Latin Quarter, Nazareth)

-- Shrine, chaplaincy of Saint Joachim and Anne in Sepphoris.

Tel: [phone]

-- Residence and Chapel of the Resurrection of the Widow's Son in Naim

-- Chapel of Saint James the Greater in Jaffa-Nazareth

-- Casa Nova

Director: Rev. Gianfranco Cau, O.F.M.

Address: Franciscan House for Pilgrims – Casa Nova

Casa Nova Street

P.O.B. 198

16100 Nazareth

Tel: [phone] (reception)

(04) 656 95 48 (director)

(04) 656 96 13 (sisters)

Fax: [phone]

-- Ramleh: Saint Nicodemus, shrine and Latin parish

Number of religious: 1

Superior and Pastor: Rev. Abdel Masih Fayez Fahim, O.F.M.

Address: Terra Sancta Convent

1 Rehov Bialik

P.O.B. 19

72100 Ramleh

Tel: [phone] (friary)

(08) 925 57 47 (sisters)

Tel: [phone] (school)

Fax: [phone]

-- Tabgha: Primacy of Saint Peter Mensa Domini, shrine (Lake Tiberias),

Satellite community of Capernaum

Number of religious: 2

Superior: Rev. Gérard Bourdonneau, O.F.M.

Address: Church of the Primacy

P.O.B. 1931 – Tabgha

14101 Tiberias

Tel: [phone]

Fax: [phone]

-- Tiberias: Saint Peter, shrine, Latin parish

Satellite community of the Transfiguration

Number of religious: 2

Superior: Rev. Xavier Geiser, O.F.M.

Address: Convent of St. Peter the Apostle

P.O.B. 179 – Terra Sancta

14101 Tiberias

Tel: [phone]; Fax: [phone]

Annexes

-- Casa Nova

Director: Rev. Gianfranco Cau, O.F.M.

Tel: [phone]; Fax: [phone]

-- Christian ruins at Hattin

--Parish Xavier Geiser

Jordan (International dialing code: + 962)
-- Amman: Terra Sancta College, Vocation Center

Number of religious: 2

Superior: Rev. Rachid Mistrih, O.F.M.

Vocation Director: Rev. Ibrahim Sabbagh, O.F.M.

Address: Terra Sancta College

Jebel Luweibdeh - P.O.B. 9114

11191 Amman, Jordan

Tel: [phone] (friary)

(06) 462 23 66 (college)

(06) 461 90 62 (evenings)

(06) 461 90 63 (kindergarten)

(06) 461 11 56 (vocation center)

Fax: [phone]

-- Madaba: Headquarters of the Franciscan Archaeological Institute, shrine in honor of Moses, residence

Number of religious: 3

Superior: Bro. Fabian Adkins, O.F.M.

Address: Mount Nebo Siyagha

Faysaliyah - P.O.B. 2

17196 Madaba, Jordan

Tel: [phone]; Fax: [phone]

Mobile: [phone]

E-mail:

[e-mail] (friary)

[e-mail] (archaeological institute)

[e-mail] (archaeological mission)

Website: www.custodia.org/fai

Cyprus (International dialing code: +357)
-- Larnaca: Saint Mary of Grace

Number of religious: 2

Superior and Pastor: Rev. Wilhelm Fornal, O.F.M.

Address: Saint Mary of Grace's Catholic Church

Terra Sancta Street

P.O.B. 40037

6300 Larnaca, Cyprus

Tel: [phone]; Fax: [phone]

-- Limassol: Saint Catherine

Number of religious: 2

Superior and Pastor: Rev. Zacheusz Dulniok, O.F.M.

Address: Saint Catherine's Catholic Church

2 Jerusalem Street

P.O.B. 57331

3315 Limassol, Cyprus

Tel: [phone]; Fax: [phone]
-- Nicosia: Holy Cross

Number of religious: 2

Superior and Pastor: Rev. Umberto Baratto, O.F.M.

Address: Holy Cross Catholic Church – Paphos Gate

P.O.B. 21964

1010 Nicosia, Cyprus

Tel: [phone]; Fax: [phone]

E-mail: [e-mail]

-- Nicosia: Terra Sancta College

Number of religious: 2

Martin Zavaletta

Address: Terra Sancta College

12 Lycourgos Street

Acropolis - P.O.B. 21546

1510 Nicosia, Cyprus

Tel: [phone]; 42 13 71

Fax: [phone]

V. Institutes of Consecrated Life

1. 
   Religious Orders, Congregations, and Societies of Apostolic Life
   

Religious Institutes of Men
Arrival No. of No. of Page

in H.L. houses members
Augustinians of the Assump.(Assumptionists) 1887 1 2 115

Basilians (Salvatorians) 1715 2 4 115

Benedictines: Hagia Maria Sion Abbey 1906 2 17 116

Mount Olivet. Abu Gosh 1976 1 10 116

Christian Brothers de La Salle 1876 4 15 117

Cistercians (Trappists) 1890 1 24 118

Congregation of the Mission (Lazarists) 1904 1 2 119

Congregation of the Passion (Passionists) 1903 1 3 119

Custody of the Holy Land (OFM) 1217 34 230 98

Hospitallers of St. John of God 1879 1 3 120

Institute of the Incarnate Word 1993 3 7 120

Lebanese Maronite Order 1695 3 9 122

Legionaries of Christ 2005 1 3 122

Little Brothers of Jesus 1956 3 5 123

Little Brothers of Jesus Caritas 1996 1 2 124

Little Family of the Annunciation 1972 2 6 124

Little Family of the Resurrection 1986 1 2 125

Maronite Antonine Order 1967 1 0 125

Missionaries of Africa (White Fathers) 1878 1 11 125

Monks of Bethlehem, the Assumption,

and St Bruno 2000 2 25 126

Order of Friars Minor Capuchin 1930 1 3 127

Order of Preachers (Dominicans) 1884 1 15 127

Order of the Discalced Carmelites 1631 4 17 128

Religious of "Lavra Netofa" 1963 1 130

Religious of Our Lady of Sion 1874 1 3 130

Sacred Heart Fathers of Betharram 1879 2 9 130

Salesians of Don Bosco 1891 7 77 131

Servants of Charity (Don Guanella) 1974 1 3 133

Society of Jesus (Jesuits) 1913 2 16 134

Sons of Divine Providence (Don Orione) 1984 1 3 134

The C. S. of the Most Holy Trinity at Mirinae 2006 1 5 135

Work of Mary (Focolare) 1977 2 9 135

Total: 31 orders & congregations of men 90 540

Augustinians of the Assumption (Assumptionists) (1887)

(Assomptionnistes)
Generalate: Agostiani dell'Assunzione

Via San Pio V, 55

00165 Rome, Italy

Tel: [phone]; Fax: [phone]

E-mail: [e-mail]
Jerusalem: Saint Peter in Gallicantu

Number of religious: 2

Superior: Rev. Alain Marchadour

Address: Ma'aleh Hashalom – Mount Zion

P.O.B. 31653

91316 Jerusalem

Tel: [phone]

Fax: [phone]

E-mail: [e-mail]

Basilian Order of the Most Holy Saviour (1715)

(Salvatorians)

(Basiliens Salvatoriens)
Generalate: Couvent Saint Sauveur

P.O.B. 305

Saida, Lebanon

Superior General: Arch. Jan Faraj

Tel: [phone]; Fax: [phone]

Beit Sahour: Catholic Greek Melkite Parish, School.

Number of religious: 1

Pastor and

Rector of the school: Rev. Boulos Armali

Address: P.O.B. 63

Beit Sahour

Tel: [phone] (school)

(02) 277 25 05 (seminary)

Fax: [phone]

E-mail: [e-mail]

Haifa: Catholic Greek Melkite Parish; Salvatorian Procurator's Office

Number of religious: 3

Superior and Pastor: Rev. Agapios Abu Saada
Associate Pastors: Rev. Sarkis Boutros

Rev. Al Farah Salem

Address: 23 Ein Dor Street

P.O.B. 9133

33256 Haifa

Tel: [phone]; Fax: [phone]

E-mail: [e-mail]


Benedictine Abbey Dormitio (1906)

(Abbaye Bénédictine of the Dormition)
Jerusalem: Benedictine Abbey Dormitio

Number of religious: 12

Abbot: Very Rev. Benedikt Lindemann, O.S.B.

Address: Abbot Benedikt M. Lindemman OSB

DormitionAbbey

Mount Zion

P.O.B. 22

91000 Jerusalem

Tel: [phone]; Fax: [phone]

E-mail: [e-mail]
Website: www.dormitio.net
Tabgha: Shrine of the Multiplication of the Loaves. Dependent priory of Dormition Abbey

Number of religious: 5

Prior: Rev. Jeremias Marseille, O.S.B.

Address: Tabgha

P.O.B. 52

14100 Tiberias

Tel: [phone]; Fax: [phone]

E-mail: [e-mail]
Benedictine Congregation of Saint Mary of Mount Olivet

(Congrégation OSB Olivétaine) (1976)
Abu Gosh: Church of the Resurrection (Emmaus of the Crusaders)

Number of religious: 10

Abbot: Fr. Charles Eugéne Galichet, O.S.B.

E-mail:

[e-mail]

Address: St. Mary of the Resurrection Abbey,

Abu Gosh

P.O.B. 407

91003 Jerusalem

Tel: [phone]; Fax: [phone]

E-mail: communaute-des-moines @benedictins-abu-gosh.org

Christian Brothers de La Salle (1876)

(Frères des Ecoles Chrétiennes)
Generalate: Via Aurelia, 476

C.P. 9099

00167 Rome, Italy

Tel: [phone]; Fax: [phone]

E-mail: [e-mail]
Provincial: Brother Georges Absi

Residence in Beirut, Lebanon

Tel: [phone]; Fax: [phone]

E-mail: [e-mail]

[e-mail]

Website: www.lasalle-po.org

Coordinator for the Holy Land and Jordan:

Brother Albert Alonzo

(Anthony Albert Alonzo)

Address: Collège des Frères, Jerusalem
Amman: De La Salle College

Number of religious: 3

Superior: Brother Rafael Gonzalez

Address: Jebel Hussein

P.O.B. 926 126

8022 Amman, Jordan

Tel: [phone];

[phone]

Fax: [phone]

E-mail: [e-mail]

[e-mail]

[e-mail]

Website: www.lasallejordan.org

Bethlehem: Bethlehem University

Number of religious: 8

Superior: Brother Joseph Loewenstein

Address: P.O.B. 11402

92248 Gilo, Jerusalem

Tel: [phone] / 2 / 3 (university)

Fax: [phone]

Tel: [phone] (residence)

E-mail: [e-mail]

Jaffa: Collège des Frères

Number of religious: 3

Superior:

Address: 23 Rehov Yefet

P.O.B. 8251

61082 Jaffa

Tel: [phone]

Fax: [phone]

E-mail: [e-mail]

Jerusalem: Collège des Frères

Number of religious: 1

Superior: Brother Albert Alonzo

Address: New Gate

P.O.B. 287

91002 Jerusalem

Tel: [phone] (New Gate)

(02) 656 31 17 (Beit Hanina)

Fax: [phone] (New Gate)

(02) 656 35 87 (Beit Hanina)

E-mail: [e-mail]

[e-mail]

Website: www.collegesdesfreres.com

Cistercian Order of the Strict Observance (Trappists) (1890)

(ORDRE CISTERCIEN DE LA STRICTE OBSERVANCE ( TRAPPISTES ))
Generalate: Curia Generalis O.C.S.O.

Viale Africa, 33

00144 Rome, Italy

Tel: [phone] Fax: [phone]

E-mail: [e-mail]

Website: www.ocso.org

Latrun: Trappist Abbey of Our Lady of Sorrows

Number of religious: 24

Abbot: Dom Paul Saouma, O.C.S.O

Address: Abbaye de Latroun

P.O.B. 753

72100 Ramleh

Tel: [phone]

Fax: [phone]

E-mail: [e-mail]

Accessible by bus: from Jerusalem, Nos. 435, 433, 404

Congregation of the Mission (1904)

(Lazarist Fathers) (Lazaristes)
Generalate: Via Del Capasso, 30

00164 Rome, Italy

Tel: [phone]

E-mail: [e-mail]

Website: www.famvin.org

Jerusalem: Lazarist Monastery (Couvent Lazariste Français): assistance to the communities of the Daughters of Charity

Number of religious: 2

Superior: Rev. Alvaro Restrepo

Address: 20 Rehov Agron

P.O.B. 1144

91010 Jerusalem

Tel: [phone]; Fax: [phone]

Mobile: [phone]

E-mail: [e-mail]

[e-mail]
Congregation of the Passion of Jesus Christ (1903)

(Passionist Fathers) (Passionistes)
Generalate: Piazza SS. Giovanni e Paolo, 13

00184 Rome, Italy

Tel: [phone]; Fax: [phone]

E-mail: [e-mail]

Website: www.passiochristi.org
Bethany: hospitality and spiritual renewal

Number of religious: 3

Superior: Rev. Gianni Sgreva

Address: Ash-Shayyah Street

P.O.B. 19087

91190 Jerusalem

Tel: [phone] (community)

Fax: [phone] (guests)

E-mail: [e-mail]