Denys Gaith, BC
(19 March 1910 in
Yabroud
Yabroud or Yabrud ( ar, يَبْرُود, Yabrūd) is a city in Syria, located in the ''Rif Dimashq'' (i.e. Damascus' countryside) governorate about north of the capital Damascus. According to the Syria Central Bureau of Statistics (CBS), Yab ...
, Syria – 22 March 1986) was Archbishop of the
Melkite Greek Catholic Archeparchy of Homs in Syria.
Life
Denys Gaith was ordained on 8 September 1937 and became the Chaplain of the Saint John the Baptist Basilians. The Assembly of Bishops of the
Melkite Greek Catholic Church
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elected him on 19 August 1971 as successor of
Jean Bassoul Jean Bassoul, BS, also John Bassoul, (7 May 1920 in Maghdouché, Lebanon – 9 August 1977) was an archbishop of the Melkite Greek Catholic Archeparchy of Zahle and Forzol.
Ordination
On 11 July 1943 Bassoul was ordained priest and was appoin ...
as Archbishop of Homs. Melkite Patriarch
Maximos V Hakim
Maximos V Hakim ( ar, ماكسيموس الخامس حكيم; May 18, 1908, in Tanta, Egypt – June 29, 2001, Beirut, Lebanon) was elected Patriarch of Antioch and All the East, and Alexandria and Jerusalem of the Melkite Greek Catholic Church i ...
was his consecrator and his co-consecrators were Archbishop
Athanase Oh-Chaer, BC and Archbishop
Nicolas Hajj Nicolas Hajj, BS (born on 30 June 1907 in Machgara, Lebanon - died on 12 January 1995) was a Melkite Greek Catholic Archbishop of the Melkite Greek Catholic Archeparchy of Baniyas.
Life
Nicolas Hajj was ordained to the priesthood on April 1, 1934 ...
, SDS on 12 September 1971. Gaith held office until his death, when he was succeeded by
Abraham Nehmé.
References
External links
* http://www.catholic-hierarchy.org/bishop/bgaith.html
* https://web.archive.org/web/20120419194326/http://www.pgc-lb.org/english/Church3.shtml#Homs
1910 births
1986 deaths
Melkite Greek Catholic bishops
Syrian Melkite Greek Catholics
People from Rif Dimashq Governorate
20th-century Syrian people
20th-century Eastern Catholic archbishops
20th-century people from the Ottoman Empire
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