Ignatius Antony II Hayyek (or ''Antun Hayek'', September 14, 1910 – February 21, 2007) was the
Patriarch
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of
Antioch and all the East of the Syrians of the
Syriac Catholic Church
The Syriac Catholic Church ( syc, ܥܕܬܐ ܣܘܪܝܝܬܐ ܩܬܘܠܝܩܝܬܐ, ʿĪṯo Suryayṯo Qaṯolīqayṯo, ar, الكنيسة السريانية الكاثوليكية) is an Eastern Catholic Churches, Eastern Catholic Christianity ...
from 1968 to 1998.
Antun Hayyek was born at
Aleppo
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in 1910 and was ordained priest on June 10, 1933. On August 15, 1959 he was consecrated bishop of
Aleppo
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by Patriarch
Ignatius Gabriel I Tappuni and served there till his appointment as Primate and Patriarch on March 10, 1968. His resignation was accepted on July 23, 1998. He died on February 21, 2007.
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1910 births
2007 deaths
Syriac Catholic Patriarchs of Antioch
People from Aleppo
Participants in the Second Vatican Council
20th-century Eastern Catholic archbishops
Recipients of the Order of Saint Ignatius of Antioch
20th-century Syrian people
21st-century Syrian people
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