Georges Kwaïter (born on April 28. 1928 in Damascus, Syria - died on July 26, 2011) was an Archeparch of the

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 ...

Life

On 15 July 1951 Georges Kwaïter made his perpetual vows in his Congregation of the Most Holy Redeemer of Melkite Basilians and on 13 June 1954 was ordained to the priesthood became himself Chaplain of the Basilians. On 23 July 1987, he was elected by the Melkite Synod of Bishops as Archbishop of Sidon and the successor to Archbishop

Ignace Raad Ignace Raad, BS (20 December 1923 in Kafar-Nabrakh, Lebanon – 19 July 1999, Montreal, Quebec, Canada) was Archbishop of the Melkite Greek Catholic Archeparchy of Sidon in Lebanon and judge at the Tribunal of the Roman Rota. Life At the age of ...

. He was confirmed by

Pope John Paul II Pope John Paul II ( la, Ioannes Paulus II; it, Giovanni Paolo II; pl, Jan Paweł II; born Karol Józef Wojtyła ; 18 May 19202 April 2005) was the head of the Catholic Church and sovereign of the Vatican City State from 1978 until his ...

. The Patriarch of Antioch

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 ...

gave him on 23 October 1987 his episcopal ordination. As co-consecrators assisted him Titular Archbishop of Tarsus of Greek Melkites Gregory Laham (Archbishop "pro hac vice", Auxiliary Bishop in Jerusalem and later Patriarch of Antioch) and the Archbishop

François Abou Mokh François Abou Mokh, BS (born on 1 July 1921 in Ma'loula, Syria - died on 11 August 2006) was a Curial Bishop in the Melkite Patriarchate of Antioch in Syria. Ecclesiastical biography François Abou Mokh was ordained to the priesthood on July 12, ...

, BS. Georges Kwaïter was co-consecrator of

Salim Ghazal Salim Gazal (July 7, 1931 – April 29, 2011) was a bishop in the Melkite Greek Catholic Church. He was the auxiliary bishop of the Patriarchate of Antioch from 2001 to 2005. Biography Gazal was born in Machgara, Lebanon. He was ordained a pri ...

, BS and his eventual successor

Elie Bechara Haddad Elie Bechara Haddad, BS (born 28 January 1960) is a Lebanese prelate of the Melkite Greek Catholic Church who has been the Archeparch of the Melkite Greek Catholic Archeparchy of Sidon since 2007. Biography Elie Bechara Haddad was born on 28 Janu ...

, BS. In 2006, his age-appropriate retirement request was accepted by the Melkite Synod.Georges Kwaiter
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Melkite Greek Catholic bishops 1928 births 2011 deaths Religious leaders from Damascus 20th-century Eastern Catholic archbishops 21st-century Eastern Catholic archbishops 20th-century Syrian people 21st-century Syrian people {{EasternCatholic-bishop-stub