Ad Abi Karam (born 28 March 1937 in Kornet Chehwan,

Matn District Matn ( ar, قضاء المتن, '), sometimes spelled Metn (or preceded by the article El, as in El Matn), is a district (''qadaa'') in the Mount Lebanon Governorate of Lebanon, east of the Lebanon's capital Beirut. The district capital is Jd ...

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) is a retired

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bishop of the

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Life

Ordained to the priesthood on 25 March 1962, Karam was appointed on 26 October 2001 bishop by

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of the Maronite Eparchy of Saint Maron of Sydney,

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, on January 12, 2002, ordained him bishop and his co-consecrators were

Roland Aboujaoudé Roland Aboujaoudé (7 September 1930 – 2 May 2019) was a Lebanese Catholic Maronite eparch of the Maronite Catholic Patriarchate of Antioch. Life Roland Aboujaoudé was born on 7 September 1930 in Jal-Edib, Lebanon. He was ordained priest on ...

, auxiliary bishop of Antioch, and

Samir Mazloum Samir Mazloum (born 10 September 1934 in Kaakour, Lebanon) is an Emeritus Curial bishop of the Maronite Catholic Patriarchate of Antioch. Life Samir Mazloum received on 7 June 1964 his priestly ordination. Pope John Paul II appointed him on 11 No ...

, Curial Bishop of Antioch. He was installed as bishop on February 8, 2002. Karam had his age-related renounce of his office on 17 April 2013 accepted by

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* http://www.gcatholic.org/dioceses/diocese/zmar1.htm 1937 births Lebanese clergy Living people 21st-century Maronite Catholic bishops People from Matn District Lebanese Eastern Catholic bishops {{Australia-bishop-stub