Francis Némé Baïssari (September 18, 1933 in Knat,

Lebanon Lebanon, officially the Republic of Lebanon, is a country in the Levant region of West Asia. Situated at the crossroads of the Mediterranean Basin and the Arabian Peninsula, it is bordered by Syria to the north and east, Israel to the south ...

– February 24, 2015) was a

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bishop of the

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and of the

Maronite Catholic Eparchy of Joubbé, Sarba and Jounieh Maronite Catholic Eparchy of Joubbé, Sarba and Jounieh (in Latin: Eparchia Ioubbensis, Sarbensis et Iuniensis Maronitarum) is an eparchy of the Maronite Church immediately subject to the Maronite Patriarch of Antioch in Lebanon. In 2013 there wer ...

Life

Ordained to the priesthood on 8 April 1962, Baïssari studied at the

Holy Spirit University of Kaslik The Holy Spirit University of Kaslik (USEK; , ''Jāmiʿah al-Rūḥ al-Quddus – al-Kaslīk'') is a private, non-profit, Catholic university in Jounieh, Lebanon. The university was founded by the Baladites in 1950 and ratified under the new ...

and obtained a title of

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. He was pastor of in the

Batroun Batroun ( ';, ancient Botrys (), is a coastal city in northern Lebanon and one of the oldest continuously inhabited cities in the world. It is the capital city of Batroun District. The main Political Party of this city is the Free patriotic ...

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appointed him on 7 June 1991

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of Aradus and

auxiliary bishop An auxiliary bishop is a bishop assigned to assist the diocesan bishop in meeting the pastoral and administrative needs of the diocese. Auxiliary bishops can also be titular bishops of sees that no longer exist as territorial jurisdictions. ...

of Joubbé, Sarba and Jounieh. His episcopal ordination occurred on August 3, 1991 by the hands of

Maronite Patriarch of Antioch This is a list of the Maronite patriarchs of Antioch and all the East, the Primate (bishop), primate of the Maronite Church, one of the Eastern Catholic Churches. Starting with Paul Peter Massad in 1854, after becoming patriarch of the Maronite Ca ...

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Nasrallah Boutros Sfeir Nasrallah Boutros Sfeir ('; ; ; 15 May 1920 – 12 May 2019) was the 76th Maronite Catholic Patriarchate of Antioch and the Whole Levant and head of the Maronite Church from 1986 to 2011. He was made a cardinal by Pope John Paul II in 1994. E ...

. His co-consecrators were

Roland Aboujaoudé Roland Aboujaoudé (7 September 1930 – 2 May 2019) was a Lebanese Catholic Maronite eparch of the Maronite Catholic Patriarchate of Antioch. Life Roland Aboujaoudé was born on 7 September 1930 in Jal-Edib, Lebanon. He was ordained priest on ...

, Auxiliary Bishop of Antioch, and

Boutros Gemayel Boutros Gemayel (29 June 1932 – 21 August 2021) was an emeritus Maronite Archbishop of the Maronite Catholic Archeparchy of Cyprus. Life Boutros Gemayel received on 12 April 1959 the sacrament of ordination to the priesthood. On 11 June 1988 h ...

, Archbishop of Cyprus. Baïssari retiring of his duties as auxiliary bishop on June 11, 2011, due to age-related reasons.Francis Neme Baissari
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Sources

* Catalogue raisonné of manuscrits de la Bibliothèque de la Residence Patriarcale Maronite 1999. * Catalogue raisonné of manuscrits de Connoubine,

, (Lebanon), 2001.

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{{DEFAULTSORT:Baissari, Francis Neme 1933 births 2015 deaths Lebanese Maronites 20th-century Maronite Catholic bishops 21st-century Maronite Catholic bishops