It was canonically erected by the Maronite Synod of Mount Lebanon in 1736. In 1848 it became an eparchy of the Maronite Patriarch of Antioch. On June 9, 1990 it was separated from the eparchy of Jbeil and united to Joubbé and Sarba (today Maronite Catholic Eparchy of Joubbé, Sarba and Jounieh).