Gregory John Mansour (born November 11, 1955, in

Flint, Michigan Flint is the largest city and seat of Genesee County, Michigan, United States. Located along the Flint River, northwest of Detroit, it is a principal city within the region known as Mid Michigan. At the 2020 census, Flint had a population of 8 ...

) is an American

Maronite The Maronites ( ar, الموارنة; syr, ܡܖ̈ܘܢܝܐ) are a Christian ethnoreligious group native to the Eastern Mediterranean and Levant region of the Middle East, whose members traditionally belong to the Maronite Church, with the larges ...

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, who has served as the

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(

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) of the Maronite Eparchy of Saint Maron of Brooklyn, a

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based in

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, covering the

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in the eastern

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, since 2004.

Life

Gregory Mansour was ordained priest on 18 September 1982 to the Maronite Catholic Eparchy of Saint Maron of Brooklyn. After its split on February 19, 1994, he was incardinated into the newly established

Maronite Catholic Eparchy of Our Lady of Lebanon of Los Angeles Maronite Eparchy of Our Lady of Lebanon (in Latin: Eparchia Dominae Nostrae Libanensis in civitate Angelorum in California Maronitarum), headquartered in St. Louis, Missouri, is an entity pertaining to the Apostolic Maronite Patriarchal Church o ...

. On 10 January 2004 Mansour was appointed to the office of the Eparchy of Brooklyn succeeding Bishop

Stephen Youssef Doueihi Stephen Hector Youssef Doueihi (born June 25, 1927 in Zgharta, Greater Lebanon, Lebanon - died on December 17, 2014) was a bishop of the Maronite Church in the United States. He served as the eparch (bishop) of the Maronite Catholic Eparchy of Sain ...

who retired., being

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eparch on March 2, 2004, by

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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 ...

, ruler of the

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 ...

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of Arca in Phoenicia of the Maronites and

, emeritus bishop of the Eparchy of Brooklyn. On April 27, 2004, Mansour was installed as eparch of Brooklyn. Bishop Mansour was appointed chairman of

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' board of directors on 22 November 2016, succeeding Archbishop of Oklahoma City Paul S. Coakley in the position. Mansour had previously travelled to

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and

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to review CRS efforts to help refugees of the Syrian Civil War, as well as

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and

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on behalf of CRS. On 7 April 2020, the Bishop announced that he was recovering from

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following exposure to a sick individual whom he had stopped to help in New York City during the

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References

External links

Maronite Catholic Eparchy of Saint Maron of Brooklyn Official Site
* http://www.gcatholic.org/dioceses/diocese/zmar0.htm

Episcopal succession

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Life

See also

References

External links

Episcopal succession