How to Use Maronite in a Sentence

Maronite

noun
  • Among those who rejected the move was the small nation’s largest church, the Maronite Church.
    — Ananya Bhattacharya, Quartz, 2023-03-27
  • Its residents were nearly all members of the Maronite Catholic Church.
    — Dexter Filkins, The New Yorker, 2024-07-22
  • By convention, the post of Lebanese president is reserved for a Maronite Catholic.
    — NPR, 1 Dec. 2025
  • Mitchell’s father was born in Ireland but adopted by a Maine family that raised him Maronite Catholic.
    — Paul Kane, Washington Post, 2023-04-15
  • The post of president - the highest Christian role in the country - is reserved for Maronite Catholics.
    — Andrea Shalal and Maya Gebeily, USA TODAY, 2024-12-01
  • By convention, the country’s president is always a Maronite.
    — New York Times, 7 Oct. 2025
  • Those figures also include Maronite Christians, a closely related group.
    — Los Angeles Times, 2023-12-23
  • The Maronite Church is the largest and most powerful Christian denomination in Lebanon.
    — New York Times, 7 Oct. 2025
  • Maronite Catholics, an Eastern Catholic community that traces its roots to the fourth century, constitute the largest group among Lebanese Christians.
    — Ramazan Kılınç, The Conversation, 9 Dec. 2025
  • This experience led him to dedicate his life to ensuring his Aramaic-speaking Maronite community would not only continue to exist but thrive and grow.
    — Timothy H.j. Nerozzi Fox News, Fox News, 2024-06-27
  • Under Lebanon's sectarian power-sharing system, the role is reserved for a Maronite Christian, with powers to appoint or remove the prime minister and cabinet.
    — Paul Du Quenoy, Newsweek, 2025-01-09
  • Pope Leo attends a meeting with young people during a visit to the Maronite Patriarchate in Bkerke, north of the capital, Beirut, on Monday.
    — Alexander Smith, NBC news, 3 Dec. 2025
  • President Joseph Aoun of Lebanon, a Maronite and former army general, had invited Leo to visit when the two met at the Vatican in June.
    — New York Times, 7 Oct. 2025
  • The Lebanese presidency is reserved for a Maronite Christian (each of the top leadership jobs in Lebanon’s government is assigned by law to a particular religious community).
    — Robert F. Worth, The Atlantic, 2024-10-31
  • Regional and sometimes international powers have a big say over who gets to be elected as president from the Christian Maronite community and who gets to be appointed as prime minister from the Sunni community.
    — Bilal Y. Saab, Foreign Affairs, 2016-01-26
  • In his annual Easter homily, Patriarch Beshara al-Rai of Lebanon’s Maronite Church blamed both Hezbollah and Israel for the suffering wrought by the war.
    — ABC News, 5 Apr. 2026
  • While Lebanon’s population is majority Muslim, the president of the country (currently Joseph Aoun) is by convention a Maronite Christian.
    — Christopher Lamb, CNN Money, 26 Nov. 2025
  • In recent days, video footage of Father Najib Amil, a Maronite Catholic priest in the mostly Christian village of Rmeich, Lebanon — about a mile, as the crow flies, from the Israeli border — has gone viral on social media.
    — Lauren Frayer, NPR, 5 Apr. 2026
  • The president must be a Maronite Christian, the prime minister must be a Sunni Muslim, the speaker of the parliament must be a Shia Muslim; parliament and cabinet seats are split equally between Christians and Muslims.
    — Ramazan Kılınç, The Conversation, 9 Dec. 2025

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