Paul Dahdah,
OCD (born 8 January 1941) is a former bishop of the
Apostolic Vicariate of Beirut.
Biography
Dahdah was born in
Zgharta,
Lebanon. He joined the
Discalced Carmelites and was ordained to priesthood on 17 April 1966.
Pope John Paul II appointed him
Archbishop of Baghdad on 30 May 1983. He received his episcopal consecration of the Apostolic Nuncio in Lebanon, Luciano Angeloni, on 21 August of the same year. His co-consecrators were
Raphael I Bidawid, Chaldean Catholic Patriarch of Babylon and
Paul Bassim
Paul Bassim, OCD, (14 November 1922 – 21 August 2012) was a Lebanese bishop of the Catholic Church.
Biography
Bassim was born in Zgharta, Lebanon and as a young man became a friar of the Discalced Carmelites. He was ordained a Roman Catholic ...
, OCD, Vicar Apostolic Emeritus of Beirut.
On 30 July 1999 Dahdah was appointed Vicar Apostolic of
Beirut and Titular Bishop of
Arae in Numidia. On 2 August 2016,
Pope Francis accepted his age-related resignation.
References
External links
Archbishop Paul Dahdah, O.C.D.catholic-hierarchy.org
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1941 births
20th-century Roman Catholic bishops in Lebanon
21st-century Roman Catholic bishops in Lebanon
Discalced Carmelite bishops
Living people
People from Zgharta
Lebanese Roman Catholic bishops