Elias Nassar (born 25 October 1960) is the retired

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of the

Maronite Catholic Eparchy of Sidon Maronite Catholic Eparchy of Sidon (in Latin: Eparchia Sidoniensis Maronitarum) is an eparchy of the Maronite Church immediately subject to the Maronite Patriarch of Antioch in Lebanon. In 2014 there were 156,000 baptized. It is currently headed ...

Life

Elias Nassar was born in Sarba,

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. He was ordained priest on 18 August 1990 by Eparchy of Sidon. The Synod of the

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elected him on 24 September 2005 to the Eparchy of Sidon. His confirmation by the

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took place on 28 December 2005.

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Nasrallah Boutros Sfeir Nasrallah Boutros Sfeir ('; ar, الكاردينال مار نصر الله بطرس صفير; la, Victor Petrus Sfeir; 15 May 1920 – 12 May 2019) was the patriarch of Lebanon's largest Christian body, the Maronite Church, an Eastern Catholic ...

, ordained Nassar to the episcopate 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 Emeritus Eparch of Sidon,

Tanios El Khoury Tanios El Khoury (4 May 1930 – 20 September 2022) was an eparch of the Maronite Catholic Eparchy of Sidon. Life El Khoury was born in Saghbine, Lebanon. On 14 June 1958, he received his ordination to the priesthood and was incardinated in the ...

, on 11 February 2006. Elias Nassar was since 2009 President of the Episcopal Commission for the missionary cooperation among the churches. As participant in the Synod of Bishops for the

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in October 2010, he called emphatically about the

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with Islam. He praised the mutual enrichment of Christianity and Islam, and underlined that since fourteen hundred years coexistence between Christians and Muslims had been assured. On 30 January 2017, Nassar resigned.

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* http://www.catholic-hierarchy.org/bishop/bnassar.html * http://www.gcatholic.org/dioceses/diocese/said1.htm 1960 births Lebanese Maronites Living people 21st-century Maronite Catholic bishops Eastern Catholic bishops in Lebanon {{EasternCatholic-bishop-stub