Fares Maakaroun

Spiridon Mattar between Fares Maakaroun and the Archimandrite Theodoro

Fares Maakoroun , also Farès Maakoroun (born October 12, 1940 in Rayak , Lebanon ) is retired Archbishop of the Melkite Greek Catholic Church in Brazil .

Career

He first attended elementary school in his hometown and then moved to a secondary school in Harissa . When he finished school he went to the White Fathers in Gap ( France ) as a novice . From 1960 he studied philosophy and theology at the seminary of the White Fathers in Jerusalem and obtained a licentiate in theology. He was ordained a priest on December 18, 1966. Until his appointment as bishop in 1995, he was professor at the seminary in Harissa, head of the seminary in Damascus , general secretary of Caritas in Lebanon and finally vicar general in Latakia in Syria .

On 31 July 1995 Maakaroun received the appointment as Archbishop of Latakia in Syria and was on 17 December 1995 by Patriarch Archbishop Maximos V Hakim and the co-consecrators Archbishop ( em. ) Michel Yatim of Latakia and Archbishop Jean Mansour SMSP , auxiliary bishop in Antioch , ordained a bishop. On December 18, 1999 he received the appointment as Archbishop " Pro hac vice " , as bishop of the believers living in Brazil of the Melkite Greek Catholic Church with the bishopric at the cathedral "Our Lady of Paradise" in São Paulo . In this capacity he was co-consecrator of Archbishop Nikolaki Sawaf of Latakia. In October 2010 he was a participant in the Special Assembly of the Synod of Bishops on the Middle East in Rome . His objection to the final protocol was a call to stand up for peace in “love” - but, he argued, “... there is no true love without true holiness. Let's be holy because our heavenly Father is holy. Holiness is the solution. Yes, sacred love, that is the solution. "

Pope Francis accepted his resignation on July 21, 2014.

^ Intervention by Mons. Fares MAAKAROUN, the Nossa Senhora do Paraíso Archbishop em São Paulo of the Greek-Melkites (BRAZIL) Intervention of Mons. Fares MAAKAROUN, Archbishop of Nossa Senhora do Paraíso em São Paulo of the Greek-Melkites (BRAZIL)

predecessor	Office	successor
Pierre Mouallem	Bishop of Nossa Senhora do Paraíso em São Paulo 1999–2014	Joseph Gébara

personal data
SURNAME	Maakaroun, Fares
ALTERNATIVE NAMES	Maakaroun, Fares
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	Lebanese clergyman, retired Archbishop of the Melkites in Brazil
DATE OF BIRTH	October 12, 1940
PLACE OF BIRTH	Rayak , Lebanon