Youssef Anis Abi Aad, IdP
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Maronite Catholic Archeparchy of Aleppo of the Maronites (in Latin: Archeparchy Aleppensis Maronitarum) is a seat of the Maronite Church. In 2012 there were 4,000 members. It is currently governed by Maronite archeparch Joseph Tobji.
Territory an ...
until November 2013.
Life
Youssef Anis Abi Aad joined the Prado Secular Institute and received on 18 June 1966 his ordination to the priesthood.
On 7 June 1997 he was elected by the Maronite Synod to the Archbishopric of Aleppo. The Maronite Patriarch of Antioch and all the East, Cardinal
Cardinal or The Cardinal may refer to:
Animals
* Cardinal (bird) or Cardinalidae, a family of North and South American birds
**''Cardinalis'', genus of cardinal in the family Cardinalidae
**''Cardinalis cardinalis'', or northern cardinal, the ...
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 ...
, gave him on 1 November of the same year the episcopal ordination. His co-consecrators were Bechara Boutros al-Rahi
Bechara Boutros al-Rahi (or Raï; syr, ܡܪܢ ܡܪܝ ܒܫܐܪܐ ܦܛܪܘܣ ܐܠܪܐܥܝ; ar, بشارة بطرس الراعي, Mor Bishārah Buṭrus al-Rāʿī; la, Béchara Petrus Raï) (born on 25 February 1940) is the 77th Maronite Patri ...
, OMM, Bishop of Byblos and present Maronite Patriarch of Antioch, and Paul Youssef Matar
Paul Youssef Matar (born 1 February 1941 in Naameh, Lebanon) was the former Archeparch of the Maronite Catholic Archeparchy of Beirut. The archeparchial seat is the city of Beirut, at the Saint George Cathedral.
Life
Paul Youssef Matar was bor ...
, Archbishop of Beirut.
See also
References
External links
* http://www.catholic-hierarchy.org/bishop/babiaad.html
1940 births
2017 deaths
Lebanese Maronites
21st-century Maronite Catholic bishops
20th-century Maronite Catholic bishops
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