How to Use Maronite in a Sentence

Maronite

noun

• By convention, the post of Lebanese president is reserved for a Maronite Catholic.
  — NPR, 1 Dec. 2025
• By convention, the country’s president is always a Maronite.
  — New York Times, 7 Oct. 2025
• 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
• 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
• 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