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Lebanese Chileans, are immigrants to Chile from Lebanon. Most are Christian and they arrived in Chile in the mid-19th to early-20th centuries to escape from poverty. Ethnically Lebanese Chileans are often called "Turks", (Spanish: Turcos) a term believed to derive from the fact that they arrived from present day Lebanon, which at that time was occupied by the Ottoman Turkish Empire.^[2] Most arrived as members of the Eastern Orthodox church and the Maronite church, but became Roman Catholic.^[3] A minority are Muslim. ^[4]

The Greek Orthodox Christians built St George's Orthodox Cathedral, Santiago [fr] in 1917.^{[citation needed]} It is a cathedral of the Church of Antioch with six parishes.^{[citation needed]}