Jean-Clément Jeanbart (born 3March 1943) is a

Melkite The term Melkite (), also written Melchite, refers to various Eastern Christian churches of the Byzantine Rite and their members originating in West Asia. The term comes from the common Central Semitic root ''m-l-k'', meaning "royal", referrin ...

archbishop, who currently serves as the Archbishop of the

Melkite Greek Catholic Archeparchy of Aleppo Melkite Greek Catholic Archeparchy of Aleppo (Latin: Archidioecesis Aleppensis o Beroeensis Graecorum Melkitarum) is an archeparchy of the Melkite Greek Catholic Church located in Syria, based in Aleppo. Its current archeparch is Jean-Clément Je ...

and

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in Western Europe of the Greek Melkites.

Life

Jeanbart was born on March 3, 1943, in Aleppo, Syria. He was ordained to the priesthood on April 15, 1968, and was consecrated as Chaplain of the Aleppinian Basilians. He was appointed to succeed the deceased

Néophytos Edelby Néophytos Edelby (born on 10 November 1920 in Aleppo, Syria - died on 10 June 1995) was Archbishop of the Melkite Greek Catholic Archeparchy of Aleppo of the Melkite Greek Catholic Church. Life Elias (baptismal name) was the eldest of six children ...

as Archbishop of Aleppo on August 2, 1995. The Patriarch of Antioch

Maximos V Hakim Maximos V Hakim (; May 18, 1908 – June 29, 2001) was elected Patriarch of Antioch and All the East, and Alexandria and Jerusalem of the Melkite Greek Catholic Church in 1967 and served until 2000. He guided the church through turbulent changes ...

ordained him to the episcopacy on September 16, 1995, assisted by co-consecrators, Archbishops

François Abou Mokh François Abou Mokh, BS (born on 1 July 1921 in Ma'loula, Syria - died on 11 August 2006) was a Curial Bishop in the Melkite Patriarchate of Antioch in Syria. Ecclesiastical biography François Abou Mokh was ordained to the priesthood on 12 July ...

BS and

Habib Bacha Habib Bacha, SMSP (June 24, 1931 in Tyre, Lebanon – 23 November 1999) was Melkite Archbishop of the Melkite Greek Catholic Archeparchy of Beirut and Byblos. Priests and promotion Habib Bacha received his priestly ordination on 29 June 1956 leadi ...

SMSP.Archbishop Jean-Clément Jeanbart
''Catholic-Hierarchy.org'' Jeanbart was appointed Apostolic Visitor in Western Europe of the Greek Melkites in 1999. He served as a principal co-consecrator for the consecration of Archbishop

Nikolaki Sawaf Nikolaki Sawaf (born 8 February 1943 in Aleppo, Syria) is the former archbishop of the Melkite Greek Catholic Archeparchy of Latakia from 2000 to 2021. Life Nikolaki Sawaf was on April 15, 1968 ordained priest. On 14 January 2000, Sawaf was appoi ...

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on March 4, 2000. After the outbreak of Syrian Civil War in Syria in August 2012, his residence was in Aleppo. In October, 2015, he pleaded with the UK government to stop backing opposition forces in the Syrian Civil War. He stated that the war was "a contest between a modern secular state and jihadis who were destroying its culture and massacring religious minorities." When Patriarch

Gregory III Laham Gregory III Laham, B.S. (; ; born Lutfy Laham, December 15, 1933, in Darayya, Syria), Emeritus Patriarch of Antioch and All the East, of Alexandria and Jerusalem, is the former spiritual leader of the Melkite Greek Catholic Church. He was elec ...

resigned on May 6, 2017, Jeanbart became administrator of the Melkite Greek Catholic Church until the election of the new

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Youssef Absi Youssef Absi ''Società dei Missionari di San Paolo'' – Missionary Society of St. Paul (Melkite Greek); se (; ; born 20 June 1946, in Damascus, First Syrian Republic, Syria) is the current Melkite Catholic Patriarchate of Antioch, patriarch of ...

. In October 2019, Jeanbart said that the Turkish offensive into north-eastern Syria is "another source of violence we would rather have done without." Jeanbart said this is concerning because it will in fact lead to the creation of an extra-territorial pocket within another nation.

Relations with Islam in the Middle East

At the Special Assembly of the

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for the Middle East, Jeanbart said, "I suggest (given the emigration of Christians) to spread optimism among our faithful about their future in the country. Our countries are yet not without resources and values! Let us learn to be friends of our Muslim brothers; helping them to open to us!"Vatican Radio - Middle East Synod: In Iraq, signs of hope.
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References

External links

* http://www.catholic-hierarchy.org/bishop/bjeanbart.html * https://web.archive.org/web/20150220045459/http://www.bistum-eichstaett.de/en/aktuell/20101018-20-das-collegium-orientale-stellt-sich-in-rom-vor-oekumenische-begegnungen-am-rand-der-bischofssynode/ * http://christian-orient.eu/beitrage/die-katholischen-kirchen-byzantinischer-tradition/ * https://web.archive.org/web/20110519230607/http://www.pgc-lb.org/english/Church3.shtml#Aleppo * https://web.archive.org/web/20190420175825/http://www.apostolische-nachfolge.de/asien2.htm {{DEFAULTSORT:Jeanbart, Jean-Clement 1943 births Melkite Greek Catholic bishops Syrian archbishops Syrian Melkite Greek Catholics Living people Religious leaders from Aleppo Eastern Catholic bishops in Syria