Cyrille Salim Bustros

Cyrille Salim Bustros SMSP (born January 26, 1939 in Ain-Bourday , Lebanon ) was Melkite Bishop of Newton from 2004 to 2010 and has been Archbishop of Beirut and Jbeil since 2010 .

Life

Cyrille Salim Bustros graduated from St. Paul's Seminary in Harissa . From 1956 to 1957 he studied philosophy at the St. Paul Institute for Theology and Philosophy , this institute is headed by the Mission Society of St. Paul. A time as a novice with the White Fathers in Gap (France) followed. After this he studied from 1958 to 1962 theology at the seminary of St. Anne in Jerusalem . From 1962 to 1970 he was professor of ancient Greek and French literature at the Harissa seminary. In 1972 he moved to the St. Paul Institute as a professor of philosophy and theology. In 1976 he received his doctorate in theology from the Catholic University of Leuven (Belgium). For eleven years until 1988 he was director of the St. Paul Institute for Philosophy and Theology.

Cyrille Salim Bustros was ordained a priest on June 29, 1962 , he is a member of the Melkite Mission Society of St. Paul (Paulists). He was appointed Archbishop of Baalbek in Lebanon on October 25, 1988, and he was ordained bishop on November 27, 1988 by Maximos V. Hakim , Patriarch of the Melkite Patriarchate of Antioch ; Co- consecrators were Elias Zoghbi , Archbishop of Baalbek, and Joseph-Marie Raya , Archbishop of Akka in Israel . On June 22, 2004, he was named pro hac vice Archbishop of Newton. He is the national prior of the Patriarchal Order of the Holy Cross in Jerusalem in the USA. He was co- consecrator of Elias Rahal SMSP to Archbishop of Baalbek.

On June 25, 2010 he was elected Archbishop of Beirut and Jbeil and on June 15, 2011 by Pope Benedict XVI. approved.

personal data
SURNAME	Bustros, Cyrille Salim
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	Lebanese clergyman, Bishop of Newton
DATE OF BIRTH	January 26, 1939
PLACE OF BIRTH	Ain-Bourday , Lebanon