Cathedral of Our Lady of the Dormition Damascus, Syria
Type	Antiochian
Classification	Eastern Catholic
Orientation	Melkite
Theology	Catholic Theology
Polity	Episcopal
Pope	Francis
Primate	Patriarch Youssef Absi
First autocephalous Patriarch	Cyril VI Tanas
Region	Egypt, Palestine, Israel, Jordan, Lebanon, Sudan, Syria, Turkey, Iraq, Argentina, Australia, New Zealand, Brazil, Canada, France, Mexico, United States, Venezuela and Sweden
Language	Arabic, Greek Diaspora: French, English, Portuguese, Spanish
Liturgy	Byzantine Rite
Headquarters	Cathedral of Our Lady of the Dormition, Damascus, Syria
Founder	Apostles Peter and Paul, by Melkite tradition
Origin	1724, with tradition tracing its origin to the 1st-century Church of Antioch[1]
Branched from	Church of Antioch
Members	1,568,239
Other name(s)	Melkite Church Melkite Greek Church Melkite Catholic Church Roum Catholic

The Melkite Greek Catholic Church (Arabic: كنيسة الروم الملكيين الكاثوليك‎, Kanīsat ar-Rūm al-Malakiyyīn al-Kāṯūlīk; Greek: Μελχιτική Ελληνική Καθολική Εκκλησία; Latin: Ecclesiae Graecae Melkitae Catholicae) or Melkite Byzantine Catholic Church, is an Eastern Catholic church in full communion with the Holy See as part of the worldwide Catholic Church. It is headed by Patriarch Youssef Absi, headquartered in Cathedral of Our Lady of the Dormition, Damascus, Syria. The Melkites, Byzantine Rite Catholics, trace their history to the early Christians of Antioch, formerly part of Syria and now in Turkey, of the 1st century AD, where Christianity was introduced by Saint Peter.

The Melkite Church is related to the Greek Orthodox Church of Antioch. It is mainly centered in Syria, Lebanon, Jordan, Israel and Palestine. Melkite Greek Catholics are present, however, throughout the world by migration due to persecution. Outside the Near East, the Melkite Church has also grown through intermarriage with, and the conversion of, people of various ethnic heritages as well as transritualism. At present there is a worldwide membership of approximately 1.6 million. While the Melkite Catholic Church's Byzantine rite liturgical traditions are shared with those of Eastern Orthodoxy, the church has officially been part of the Catholic Church since the reaffirmation of its union with the Holy See of Rome in 1724.