The Catholic Church in Jordan is part of the worldwide Catholic Church, under the spiritual leadership of the Pope in Rome.
In 2023, Christians made up 2.1% of Jordan's population.[1] Of these half, or 1.06% of the country's population were Catholics (115,000 people).[2]
Catholics are divided in four Rites:
80,000 Latin Catholics
32,000 Melkite Catholics
1,500 Syrian Catholics
500 Armenian Catholics
There are also thousands of Chaldean Catholics refugees from Iraq.
The whole of the country for all Melkites forms a single Archeparchy.
Jordanian Catholics belonging to the Greek Catholic churches use the Melkite Rite, these are referred to as "Roum Catholiks" in Jordan (Roum or Rome referring to Byzantine, while those following the standard rites of the Catholic Church are referred to as "Lateen" and belong to the Latin Patriarch of Jerusalem.
^US State Dept 2022 report
^Catholics and Culture website, retrieved 2023-08-08
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