John George Chedid (

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: جون جورج شديد) (July 4, 1923, in

Edde, Lebanon Edde village is located 45 km north of Beirut, Lebanon. It rises to an altitude of 210 metres (689.01 ft, 229 656 yd) of sea level and covers an area of 398 acres. Etymology The name ''Edde'' comes from the Semitic root ''edd'', meaning ...

– March 21, 2012) was a Lebanese-born

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hierarch. He served as the first

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of the

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 ...

from 1994 until his retirement in 2000.

Life

Born in

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, John Chedid received after ten years of study in Rome on 21 December 1951 his priestly ordination of the Apostolic Exarchate of the United States of America. On September 1, 1955, he joined the succession of Thomas Aiken as pastor of the parish of Our Lady of Mt. Lebanon in Los Angeles. In 1969 he was made Monsignor and named Honorary Chaplain to His Holiness. On November 12, 1978, he was ordained a Chorbishop.http://www.ourladyofmountlebanon.org/history.php

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appointed him on 13 October 1980

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of Callinicum dei Maroniti and ordered him to auxiliary bishop in the diocese of Saint Maroun of Brooklyn.

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Anthony Peter Khoraish Patriarch Moran Mor Anthony III Peter Khoraish (September 20, 1907 – August 19, 1994), (or ''Antonios Boutros Khoraish'', ''Antoine Pierre Khreich'', ''Khraish'', ''Khoraiche'', ar, أنطونيوس الثالث بطرس خريش), was the 75t ...

, ordained him on January 25, 1981, to the episcopate and his co-consecrators were

Francis Mansour Zayek Archbishop Francis Mansour Zayek (Arabic: فرنسيس منصور الزايك ; born October 18, 1920, Manzanillo, Cuba – died on September 14, 2010) was a prelate of the Maronite Church. He was the founding eparch of the Maronite Catholic Ep ...

, Eparch of Saint Maron of Brooklyn, and

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 ...

, Auxiliary Bishop of Antioch. Chedid was ordained as the first Bishop of the

at the Our Lady of Lebanon Cathedral in

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, California, on February 19, 1994, by

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. He served until he reached the mandatory retirement age of 80. His resignation due to age was accepted by

on November 20, 2000, and he was succeeded by the second bishop,

Robert Joseph Shaheen Robert Joseph Shaheen (3 June 1937 – 9 August 2017) was an American prelate of the Maronite Catholic Church. He was the former Eparch of the Eparchy of Our Lady of Lebanon. He resided at St. Raymond's Cathedral in St. Louis, Missouri. Life ...

. Bishop John George Chedid died on March 21, 2012, at the age of 88.

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* http://www.gcatholic.org/dioceses/diocese/olle0.htm {{DEFAULTSORT:Chedid, John George 1923 births 2012 deaths 20th-century Maronite Catholic bishops American Maronites Lebanese emigrants to the United States Lebanese Maronites