Jean Assaad Haddad (17 December 1926 – 22 January 2021) was a Lebanese Melkite hierarch, who served as an Archbishop of the

Melkite Greek Catholic Archeparchy of Tyre Melkite Greek Catholic Archeparchy of Tyre (Latin: Archeparchy Tyrensis Graecorum Melkitarum) is a metropolitan see of the Melkite Greek Catholic Church. In 2009 there were 3,100 baptized. It is currently governed by an Apostolic Administrator, Ar ...

in Lebanon.

Life

Haddad was born in December 1926 in

Beit Chabab Beit Chabab (Syriac: Bet Shebāba, ar, بيت شباب) is a mountain village 24 km north of Beirut in Lebanon. Beit Chabeb is the site of Lebanon's one and only bell foundry. The bells of Beit Chabab are sold to Christian communities in L ...

, Lebanon. On 2 July 1950, he received his priestly ordination. On 26 October 1988 he became successor to Archbishop Georges Haddad as Archbishop of Tyre. 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 ...

consecrated him bishop on 27 November 1988, and his co-consecrators were the Archbishops Grégoire Haddad as Titular Archbishop of Adana of Greek Melkites and

Habib Bacha Habib Bacha, SMSP (June 24, 1931 in Tyre, Lebanon – 23 November 1999) was Melkite Archbishop of the Melkite Greek Catholic Archeparchy of Beirut and Byblos. Priests and promotion Habib Bacha received his priestly ordination on 29 June 1956 leadi ...

, SMSP of Beirut and Byblos. In 2000, Haddad from 6 June to 29 November became apostolic administrator "sede plena" of the Melkite Patriarchate of Antioch. On 20 June 2005 he became emeritus bishop due to age-related reasons, and was succeeded by

Georges Bacouni Georges Bacouni, also transliterated Bakhouni or Bakouny (born 16 May 1962 in Aïn el-Roummaneh/Beirut in Lebanon), is the Archbishop of the Melkite Greek Catholic Archeparchy of Beirut and Byblos Biography Bacouni attended the Saint Paul Insti ...

, whom he co-consecrated. He also served as co-consecrator of the Archbishops

Boutros Mouallem Archbishop Pierre (Boutros) Mouallem (born 10 May 1928) is the retired Melkite Greek Catholic Archeparchy of Akka, Melkite Greek Catholic Archbishop of Akko, Haifa and the Galilee, in Israel. Biography Mouallem was born in Eilabun, Galilee, i ...

, MSP of São Paulo in Brazil and

Joseph Kallas Joseph Kallas, SMSP (born on September 24, 1931 in Fakiha, Lebanon) is Emeritus Melkite Archbishop of the Melkite Greek Catholic Archeparchy of Beirut and Byblos. Biography Joseph Kallas was ordained a priest on 13 August 1958 by the White Fathe ...

of Beirut and Byblos.

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* http://www.catholic-hierarchy.org/bishop/bhaddadja.html 1926 births 2021 deaths Lebanese Melkite Greek Catholics Melkite Greek Catholic bishops People from Matn District {{EasternCatholic-bishop-stub