Ignace Raad, BS (20 December 1923 in Kafar-Nabrakh, Lebanon – 19 July 1999,

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, Canada) was Archbishop 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 ...

in Lebanon and judge at the Tribunal of the

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Life

At the age of 11, Raad entered the monastery of the Melkite Basilian of the Most Holy Redeemer in Joun. In 1945 he laid his Eternal vow and prepared himself to become a monk. In 1947, his predecessor, Bishop

Basile Khoury Basile Khoury, BS (15 August 1900, Borj-Safita, today Syria – 22 April 1985) was the first Archeparch of the Melkite Greek Catholic Archeparchy of Sidon in Lebanon. Life Basile Khoury was ordained priest on May 2, 1928 and became Chaplain of the ...

, BS, of Sidon, consecrated him deacon and the Patriarch of Antioch

Maximos IV Sayegh Maximos IV Sayegh (or ''Saïgh''; 10 April 1878, in Aleppo, Syria – 5 November 1967, in Beirut, Lebanon) was Patriarch of Antioch and All the East, and Alexandria and Jerusalem of the Melkite Greek Catholic Church from 1947 until his death ...

ordained him on November 9, 1947, to the priesthood and he became Chaplain of the Melkite Basilian. Raad then taught for two years at the seminary of the Basilian and received his PhD in 1949 in Rome for Doctor of Political Science and Doctor of the Church - and civil law. From 1953 to 1972 he was pastor of the parish "Immaculate Conception of Heliopolis" in Cairo. During this time, he became Archimandrite and was consecrated in other functions in the Archdiocese of Alexandria at the Melkite University as Professor of Religion, Chief Justice of the Patriarchal Appeals and Deputy Patriarchal Vicar of Alexandria. Raad moved in 1972 to Rome and was assigned duties in the Vatican. Until 1981, he was a judge at the Tribunal of the Roman Rota. The Melkite Synod elected him on 9 September 1981 for the Archeparchy of Sidon. On October 30, 1981, Ignace Raad was consecrated bishop by Melkite Patriarch

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 ...

and his co-consecrators were Archbishop Nicolas Hajj, SDS, and 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. On September 18, 1985, he quit his position back at the Synod of the

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and took over the Presidency of the Church Court of the Melkite Church in Canada, based in Montreal after leaving his office as Archeparch of Sidon. His successor in 1987 was Archbishop

Georges Kwaïter 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. Life On 15 July 1951 Georges Kwaïter made his perpetual vows in his Congregation of the Mos ...

, elected to the office. Until his death on 19 July 1999, Raad remained as emeritus Archbishop of Sidon and was buried on 23 July 1999 in Montreal.

References

External links

* http://www.catholic-hierarchy.org/bishop/braad.html * http://ignaceraad.canalblog.com/archives/2007/04/index.html {{DEFAULTSORT:Raad, Ignace 1923 births 1999 deaths Lebanese Melkite Greek Catholics Melkite Greek Catholic bishops Lebanese expatriates in Italy Lebanese expatriates in Canada