They are members of the Melkite Greek Catholic Church, a Eastern Catholic Church.
Mavrocordat , born in Constantinople on 23 July 1684 and dead in Bucharest on 23 February 1719, was caimacam of Moldavia 7 October 1711 — 16 November 1711 and Prince of Wallachia between 2 December 1716 and 23 February 1719.