Roland Aboujaoudé (7 September 1930 – 2 May 2019) was a Lebanese Catholic Maronite eparch of the

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Life

Roland Aboujaoudé was born on 7 September 1930 in Jal-Edib,

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. He was ordained priest on 25 April 1959. On 12 July 1975, Aboujaoudé was appointed patriarchal vicar of Antioch and

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of Arca in Phoenicia dei Maroniti. He was ordained bishop on 23 August 1975 by the hands of the

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Anthony Peter Khoraish and his co-consecrators were

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, Archeparch of Cyprus and Joseph Merhi, MLM, Eparch of Cairo. On 1985 Aboujaoudé was appointed

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of Antioch till 1988 when he was appointed

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of Antioch. Since 1997 he had been a Curial Bishop and

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of the Maronite Patriarch. On 6 June 2011, he presented his resignation from the post of auxiliary bishop and it was accepted by

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Co-consecrator bishop

Roland Aboujaoudé was co-consecrator in episcopal ordinations of following bishops: * Paul Fouad Tabet,

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" of Sinna (Apostolic Nuncio) * Elias Shaheen, Eparch of Montréal * Khalil Abi-Nader, Archeparch of Beirut * Joseph Mohsen Béchara, Archeparch of Cyprus *

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of Tarsus dei Maroniti and

of Antioch *

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, Eparch of Latakia *

Paul-Emile Saadé Paul-Emile Saadé (9 July 1933 – 21 September 2022) was a Lebanese Maronite Catholic prelate who was Emeritus Maronite Eparch of the Maronite Catholic Eparchy of Batroun. Life Paul-Emile Saadé was born in Ehden, Mount Lebanon on 9 July 193 ...

of Apamea in Syria dei Maroniti as auxiliary bishop in Antioch *

Bechara Boutros al-Rahi Bechara Boutros Al-Ra'i (or Raï; ; ; ) (born 25 February 1940) is the 77th Maronite Patriarch of Antioch, and head of the Maronite Church, a position he has held since 15 March 2011, succeeding Patriarch Nasrallah Boutros Sfeir. Rahi was mad ...

, OMM, Titular Bishop of Caesarea Philippi and

of Antioch * Philippe Boutros Chebaya, Eparch of Baalbek * Pierre Callaos, Archeparch of Aleppo * Guy-Paul Noujaim,

of Caesarea Philippi and auxiliary bishop of Antioch * Joseph Mahfouz,

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, Eparch of São Paulo * Charbel Georges Merhi, CML, Eparch of Buenos Aires * Francis Némé Baïssari,

of Aradus and

of Antioch * Paul Youssef Matar,

of Tarsus dei Maroniti and

of Antioch * Maroun Khoury Sader, Archeparch of Tyre * Gabriel Toubia, Archeparch of Tripoli * Joseph Khoury,

of Chonochora and

of Antioch * Paul-Mounged El-Hachem, Eparch of Baalbek * Pierre Wadih Tayah, Eparch of Mexico *

Paul Nabil El-Sayah Paul Nabil El-Sayah (in Arabic: بولس نبيل الصياح; born 26 December 1939 in Aïn el Kharroubé, Lebanon) is an Archeparch of the Maronite Church and Curial Bishop of the Maronite Catholic Patriarchate of Antioch. Life Paul Nabil El-Sa ...

, Archeparch of Haifa and the Holy Land * Tanios El Khoury, Eparch of Sidon * Youhanna Fouad El-Hage, Archeparch of Tripoli * Robert Joseph Shaheen, Eparch of Los Angeles * Massoud Massoud, Eparch of Latakia * Ad Abi Karam, Eparch of Sydney * Mansour Hobeika, Eparch of Zahle * Georges Saad Abi Younes,

, Eparch of Mexico * Chucrallah-Nabil El-Hage, Archeparch of Tyre * Gregory John Mansour, Eparch of Brooklyn *

Georges Bou-Jaoudé Georges Bou-Jaoudé, CM (27 December 1943 – 28 March 2022) was a Maronite Catholic hierarch, who served as archbishop of the Maronite Catholic Archeparchy of Tripoli in Lebanon. Life Georges Bou-Jaoudé was born in 1943 in Jouret El-Ballou ...

, CM, Archeparch of Tripoli * Simon Atallah, OAM, Eparch of Baalbek *

François Eid François Eid, OMM (born on 24 July 1943 in Mtolleh, Chouf District, Lebanon) is a retired Maronite Bishop of the Maronite Catholic Eparchy of Cairo and Procurator of the Maronite Patriarch at the Holy See. Life François Eid joined the OMM of t ...

, OMM, Eparch of Cairo * Elias Nassar, Eparch of Sidon

References

External links

* http://www.catholic-hierarchy.org/bishop/babouj.html {{DEFAULTSORT:Aboujaoude, Roland 1930 births 2019 deaths Lebanese Christian clergy 20th-century Maronite Catholic bishops 21st-century Maronite Catholic bishops