Bkerké (Arabic: بكركي also Bkerke or Bkerkeh) is the See of the Maronite Catholic Patriarchate, located 650 m above the bay of Jounieh in Lebanon. Arabic (ar الْعَرَبيّة (informally ar عَرَبيْ) in terms of the number of speakers is the largest living member of the Semitic language Maronites ( الموارنة,, Syriac: ܡܪܘܢܝܐ, Latin: Ecclesia Maronitarum) are members of one of the Syriac Jounieh ( Arabic جونيه or Junia, جونية is a Mediterranean coastal city about 15 kilometers north of Beirut, Lebanon Lebanon (ˈlɛbənɒn Arabic: ar لبنان Lubnān) officially the Republic of Lebanon or Lebanese Republic (ar الجمهورية اللبنانية
The See of the Maronite Catholic Patriarchate was originally in Antioch, but due to persecution, it moved first to Saint Maron's Monastery on the Orontes River and then to varied locations in Mount Lebanon, such as Kfarhay, Yanouh, Mayphouk, Lehfed, Habeel, Kfifan, Al Kafr, and Hardeen in the Byblos region. Maronites ( الموارنة,, Syriac: ܡܪܘܢܝܐ, Latin: Ecclesia Maronitarum) are members of one of the Syriac Antioch on the Orontes (Ἀντιόχεια ἡ ἐπὶ Δάφνῃ Ἀντιόχεια ἡ ἐπὶ Ὀρόντου or Ἀντιόχεια ἡ Μεγάλη Antiochia ad Orontem also See Orontid dynasty for the Armenian kings and satraps called Orontes Mount Lebanon ( Arabic: جبل لبنان as a geographic designation is the Lebanese mountain range known as the Western Mountain Range of Lebanon Byblos ( Βύβλος) is the Greek name of the Phoenician city Gebal (earlier Gubla) It then moved to Qannoubine in the Kadisha Valley because of intensified persecution and remained from 1440 to 1823 when it moved to Dimane and lastly to Bkerké. The Kadisha Valley (also known as Qadisha Valley, Wadi Qadisha Ouadi Qadisha or وادي قاديشا in Arabic) lies within the Becharre and Dimane (الديمان is a mountainous village situated in the Northern region in Lebanon in the Bsharri District. [1] Today, Maronite Patriarchs use Dimane as a summer residence and Bkerké as a winter one.
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