Melkite Greek Catholic Eparchy of Nuestra Señora del Paraíso in Mexico City (Latin: Eparchia Dominae Nostrae Paradisi in Civitate Mexicana Graecorum Melkitarum) is an eparchy of the Melkite Greek Catholic Church, based in Mexico City.
The first Chaplain Father Sleiman Khoury, from the Missionary Society of St. Paul (SMSP), a Melkite religious community, who remained at the request of his relatives in Mexico, and was granted the title of Archimandrite later.
The Eparchy of Nuestra Señora del Paraíso de México was finally erected on February 27, 1988, by Pope John Paul II by the Apostolic constitution Apostolorum Principis.
[1] Following the sudden death of the Eparch Boutros Raï in 1994, four apostolic administrators have been named for this seat: the archimandrites Antoine Mouhanna (1994-2006) and Gabriel Ghanoum (2006-2015), the bishop Nicholas Samra (2015-2019), also serving as bishop of the Melkite Greek Catholic Eparchy of Newton, in the United States, and Joseph Khawam (2019-), also appointed as apostolic exarch for the Melkite Greek Catholic Apostolic Exarchate of Venezuela.
In November 2008 the VI Congress of the Melkite Greek Catholic bishops of the emigration was held in Mexico.