Melkite Greek Catholic Archeparchy of Petra and Philadelphia in Amman

The archeparchy extends its jurisdiction over all the faithful of the Melkite Greek Catholic Church in Jordan.

In the above the bubble archeparchy assumed the name of Transjordan, terminology foreign to the history and tradition not only of the Melkite Church, but of all the Christian East.

Moreover, the same bubble adds that "Transjordaniam regionem in veram ac propriam archidioecesim erigimus et constituimus," without specifying further if with Archidioecesis meant a home or an autocephalous metropolis of distinct groups in the Oriental Canon Law.

Patriarch Cyril IX Moghabghab consecrated in Cairo June 5, 1932 the first archeparch Paul Salman, entrusting him with the title of Metropolitan of Petra, Philadelphia and Transjordan.

These securities to him two ancient sites, Petra and Philadelphia of Palestine of Arabia: the first is a metropolitan see and the second a simple suffragan dioceses; the first part of the Patriarchate of Jerusalem, the second that of Antioch.