Giacinto-Boulos Marcuzzo (born 24 April 1945, in

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) is a Roman Catholic Auxiliary Bishop Emeritus of the

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, resident in

Nazareth Nazareth ( ; ar, النَّاصِرَة, ''an-Nāṣira''; he, נָצְרַת, ''Nāṣəraṯ''; arc, ܢܨܪܬ, ''Naṣrath'') is the largest city in the Northern District of Israel. Nazareth is known as "the Arab capital of Israel". In ...

. As at December 2020, he was Latin Patriarchal Vicar for Jerusalem and Palestine.

Biography

Giacinto-Boulos Marcuzzo studied philosophy and theology at the Major Patriarchal Seminary in Beit Jala. He was ordained a priest on June 22, 1969 in the

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. Then he worked as a chaplain in Beit Jala in the

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, in Ramallah and in Malakal in southern Sudan, including as director of the minor seminary. Marcuzzo was also teacher at the Minor Seminary of the Latin Patriarchate in Beit Jala. In the years 1977-1980 Marcuzzo studied

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at the

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and theology of spirituality at the Teresianum in Rome. After obtaining a doctorate Marcuzzo became a lecturer at the Major Seminary in Beit Jala, being for a time its rector. He also lectured

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and Arabic Christian literature at the

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. In 1993 Marcuzzo was appointed Auxiliary Bishop of the Latin Patriarch of Jerusalem as

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of Siminina. He was consecrated bishop on the hands of the

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Michel Sabbah Michel Sabbah ( ar, ميشيل صباح; born 19 March 1933) is a Palestinian Catholic prelate who served as the Latin Patriarch of Jerusalem from 1987 to 2008, the first non-Italian to hold the position in more than five centuries. Biography Sa ...

on 3 July 1993 in the

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. From 29 October 1994 he became titular bishop of

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. He resides in Nazareth as patriarchal vicar for Israel. Marcuzzo is fluent in Italian, Arabic, French, English, German and Hebrew. He retired on 29 August 2020.

References

External links

Catholic-hierarchy.org
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