The Maronite Church is an Eastern Catholic sui iuris particular church, in the west Syriac Antiochene tradition, which has always been in full communion with the Pope of Rome and has remained loyal to the Catholic faith since its inception in the Fourth Century.
The Maronite Church takes its name from St. Maron, a Syrian hermit who lived in the fourth century, and the Maronites are now dispersed in the whole world with the largest population around Mount Lebanon in Lebanon.