Our Lady of Lebanon Procathedral, Bogotá


The Our Lady of Lebanon Procathedral also called Catholic Maronite Cathedral of Bogotá or Church of Our Lady of Lebanon And alternatively Church of Santa Clara de Assís is the name that receives a temple that belongs to the Catholic Church that is located in the Carrera 8A N ° 98-31 to the north of the city of Bogotá the capital of the South American country of Colombia. The congregation uses the Maronite rite in full communion with the Holy See in Rome.
The church is the procathedral or temporary headquarters of the Catholic Maronite Apostolic Exarch of Colombia which uses a church ceded by the Latin rite Archdiocese of Bogotá and was created by Pope Francis on January 20, 2016 to attend to the needs Religious of the Catholic community Maronite in Colombia that until now had to attend other Catholic churches of Roman or Latin rite.
The temple is attended by Father Fadi Abou Chebel of the Maronite Order Mariamita.