Michel Hakim, BS (21 April 1921, Maghdouché, Lebanon – 22 November 2006, Montreal, Canada) was Vicar Apostolic of Canada and first bishop of the Melkite Greek Catholic Eparchy of Saint-Sauveur in Montréal in Canada.

Life

Michel Hakim was born in

Maghdouché Maghdouché ( ar, مغدوشة, , ) is a town in the South Governorate of Lebanon. It is located 50 km south of Beirut and 8 km southeast of Sidon. The village lies 3 km inland from the Mediterranean, occupying a hill with elev ...

, Lebanon, to Greek Catholic parents, Nakhleh Hakim and Hanneh Hayek. His hometown, Maghdouché, is a well-known pilgrimage center, under the administration of the

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. Hakim studied at St.-Sauveur seminary theology and was on November 10, 1947 ordained priest as Chaplain of the Melkite Basilian of the Most Holy Redeemer (BS). He worked as a school administrator in Damascus and later led a youth group in Zahle. In the 60s, Hakim completed his theological studies at the Sorbonne and the

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. Since 1947 he was Superior of the Basilian Order. On August 25, 1977, he was appointed bishop 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. The episcopal ordination was on September 10, 1977 by 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 ...

. His co-consecrators were the Archbishops

Saba Youakim Saba Youakim, BS (born on 2 June 1914 in El Wardieh in Baalbek, Lebanon – died on 6 March 2003) was Archbishop of the Melkite Greek Catholic Archeparchy of Petra and Philadelphia in Amman. Life Saba Youakim was ordained to the priesthood on Nov ...

of Petra and Philadelphia in Jordan and

Georges Haddad Georges Haddad (14 March 1924, in Beit Chabad, Lebanon – 30 December 1985) was Archbishop of the Melkite Greek Catholic Archeparchy of Tyre in Lebanon. Priest Having entered the Seminary of Saint Anne in Rabweh in 1935, he finished his studie ...

of Tyre in Lebanon.

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named Hakim on 13 October 1980 to the Apostolic Vicariate of Canada for the Melkite Greek Catholic Church and at the same time appointed him Titular Bishop of Caesarea in Cappadocia of Greek Melkites. On 1 September 1984, after the nomination of the Apostolic Vicariate to Archeparchy, he was appointed Archbishop of Saint-Sauveur de Montréal. Hakim was co-consecrator of the bishops

John Elya John Adel Elya (16 September 1928 – 19 July 2019) was a bishop of the Melkite Greek Catholic Church. From 1993 to 2004, he served as Eparch of Newton, with jurisdiction over Melkite churches in the United States. Biography Elya, a native of ...

(Newton, USA), Nicholas Samra (Auxiliary bishop in Newton) and

Sleiman Hajjar Sleiman Hajjar (May 13, 1950 — March 10, 2002) was the Melkite Catholic bishop of Canada. Hajjar was born in Jezzine, Lebanon and graduated from St. Joseph University and from the Pontifical University of the Holy Spirit in Lebanon. Ordained a pr ...

, BS, his successor in office. After his age-related retirement on 30 June 1998 retired Archbishop Hakim remained between Montreal and Lebanon.

References

External links

Catholic-hierarchy.org

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