Emile Eid (March 15, 1925, in Mazraat el Daher,

Lebanon Lebanon ( , ar, لُبْنَان, translit=lubnān, ), officially the Republic of Lebanon () or the Lebanese Republic, is a country in Western Asia. It is located between Syria to the north and east and Israel to the south, while Cyprus li ...

– November 30, 2009) was the Maronite Catholic

titular bishop A titular bishop in various churches is a bishop who is not in charge of a diocese. By definition, a bishop is an "overseer" of a community of the faithful, so when a priest is ordained a bishop, the tradition of the Catholic, Eastern Orthodox an ...

of Sarepta dei Maroniti.

Life

Ordained to the priesthood on May 6, 1951, to 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 ...

, Eid was named titular bishop on December 20, 1982, and was ordained bishop of Sarepta dei Maroniti on January 23, 1983, by Maronite Patriarch of Antioch, Anthony Peter Khoraish, and his co-consecrators were Nasrallah Boutros Sfeir, Titular bishop of Tarsus dei Maroniti and

Ibrahim Hélou Ibrahim Hélou (27 March 1925 in Jezzine, Lebanon – 3 February 1996) was a Lebanese eparch of the Maronite Catholic Eparchy of Sidon. Life Ibrahim Hélou was born in Jezzine, Lebanon. On 22 December 1951 he was ordained to the priesthood. ...

, Eparch of Sidon. Bishop Eid served as vice president of the commission that wrote the Code of Canons of the Eastern Churches. On October 18, 1990, Eid resigned his duties as bishop due to age-related reasons. Emile Eid died on November 30, 2009, at the age of 84.

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Emile Eid
20th-century Maronite Catholic bishops 1925 births 2009 deaths Lebanese Christian clergy {{EasternCatholic-bishop-stub