François Ayoub (born on 11 July 1899 in

Aleppo Aleppo is a city in Syria, which serves as the capital of the Aleppo Governorate, the most populous Governorates of Syria, governorate of Syria. With an estimated population of 2,098,000 residents it is Syria's largest city by urban area, and ...

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- died on 2 June 1966) was a Syrian Archbishop of the Maronite Catholic Archeparchy of Aleppo and the Maronite Catholic Archeparchy of Cyprus.

Life

On 16 May 1925, Françoise Ayoub was ordained a priest. His appointment as Archbishop of the Maronite Catholic Archeparchy of Cyprus took place on 28 November 1942 and he was consecrated bishop on 14 February 1943 by

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 ...

Anthony Peter Arida, and his co-consecrators were Abdallah Khoury,

Titular bishop A titular bishop in various churches is a bishop who is not in charge of a diocese. By definition, a bishop is an "overseer" of a community of the faithful, so when a priest is ordained a bishop, the tradition of the Catholic, Eastern Orthodox an ...

of Arca in Phoenicia dei Maroniti, Elie Rischa, Eparch of Baalbek, Elie Chedid, Titular Archbishop of Cyrruhs per i Maroniti, Michael Akras, Archeparch of Aleppo and Jean Elie El-Hage, Archeparch of Damascus. In 1950, he was co-consecrator of the

Anthony Peter Khoraish. On 16 April 1954, Ayoub was named to the Archeparchy of Aleppo and at the same time he was appointed Apostolic Administrator of the

Maronite Catholic Eparchy of Latakia The Eparchy of Latakia or Latakia of the Maronites (in Latin: Eparchia Laodicenus Maronitarum) is a Maronite Church ecclesiastical territory or eparchy of the Catholic Church in Syria. , there were 35,000 members. The current eparch is Antoine Ch ...

. He participated in the four sessions of the

Second Vatican Council The Second Ecumenical Council of the Vatican, commonly known as the or , was the 21st and most recent ecumenical council of the Catholic Church. The council met each autumn from 1962 to 1965 in St. Peter's Basilica in Vatican City for session ...

(1962-1965).

References

External links

* http://www.catholic-hierarchy.org/bishop/bayoub.html * https://web.archive.org/web/20170702013321/http://www.apostolische-nachfolge.de/asien2.htm {{DEFAULTSORT:Ayoub, Francois 1899 births 1966 deaths 20th-century Maronite Catholic bishops Syrian Maronites Place of death missing Religious leaders from Aleppo Participants in the Second Vatican Council