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n. - An Orthodox Christian or Uniate Christian belonging to the patriarchate of Alexandria or Antioch or Jerusalem;

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  • The seat of a Melchite and a Maronite see in Syria.
  • Proterios and Salophakiolos, his Melchite predecessors.
  • The Melchite diocese, created in 1897, has 1225 faithful,
  • Vekeel to enable him to pursue the fugitive Melchite sisters.
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