كاتدرائية القديس جاورجيوس للروم الملكيين الكاثوليكSt. Georges Greek Melkite Catholic Cathedral

The episcopal see of Tripoli is very old, as we read the signature of the Metropolitan of Tripoli at the first Council of Nabkiah in 325.

After the split in the Antiochian Patriarchate in 1724, a small number of Roman Catholics remained in Tripoli, but they were prevented from building a church.

When Ibrahim Pasha conquered Syria and Lebanon, he had in his entourage the royal Roman Catholic Hanna al-Bahri, who was a trustee of the conqueror. He came to Tripoli and wanted to attend the Divine Sacrifice according to his Byzantine ritual, but he was told: No priest dares to come to Tripoli!

He immediately ordered a priest. They brought a priest from Duma al-Batroun, and he celebrated Mass in front of a crowd from various denominations.

Bahri Bey collected the china himself and bought a piece of land that was the basis of the new bishopric in 1830 and in 1835 for Patriarch Maximos Mazloum, who built the current church.