Basilio Haggiar, BS (born on 6 January 1839 in Gezzin, Syria - died in 1919) was an archbishop of the

Melkite Greek Catholic Archeparchy of Bosra and Hauran Melkite Greek Catholic Archeparchy of Bosra and Hauran (in Latin: Archeparchy Bostrena et Auranensis) is an archeparchy of the Melkite Greek Catholic Church with its territory located in Syria. It is currently governed by Archeparch Nicolas Antib ...

in Syria and

Melkite Greek Catholic Archeparchy of Sidon Melkite Greek Catholic Archeparchy of Sidon (in Latin: Archeparchia Sidoniensis Graecorum Melkitarum) is a diocese of the Melkite Greek Catholic Church suffragan of the Melkite Greek Catholic Archeparchy of Tyre. In 2010 there were 32,000 baptized ...

in Lebanon.

Life

Basil Haggiar was appointed on October 14, 1871 as Bishop of Bosra and Hauran in Syria and was consecrated on 24 October 1871 to the bishopric. With the establishment of the Archeparchy of Bosra and Hauran in 1881, he has been implemented as Archbishop of Bosra and Hauran. In 1887 Haggiar took over the archbishopric of Sidon in Lebanon and died in 1919 after 47 years of episcopal life. His successor in Bosra and Hauran was Archbishop

Nicolas Cadi Nicolas Cadi (born on 29 June 1861 in Damascus, Syria - died in 1941) was Archbishop of the Melkite Greek Catholic Archeparchy of Bosra and Hauran in Syria. Life Nicolas Cadi was ordained priest on 21 November 1884. He was appointed on 10 February ...

and Atanasio Khoriaty in Sidon.

External links

* http://www.catholic-hierarchy.org/bishop/bhaggb.html * http://www.gcatholic.org/dioceses/diocese/said0.htm#17548 {{DEFAULTSORT:Haggiar, Basil 1839 births 1919 deaths Melkite Greek Catholic bishops 19th-century Syrian people 20th-century Syrian people 19th-century Eastern Catholic archbishops 20th-century Eastern Catholic archbishops Syrian Melkite Greek Catholics Bishops in the Ottoman Empire