Gabriel Acacius Coussa

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Gabriel Acacius Cardinal Coussa BA ; originally Gabriel Léon Coussa (born August 3, 1897 in Aleppo , † July 29, 1962 in Rome ) was Archbishop of the Melkite-Greek-Catholic Church , expert in canon law and cardinal .

Life

On December 20, 1920, Coussa was ordained as a religious priest of the Basilians of Aleppo . On March 3, 1946 he was by Pope Pius XII. appointed Secretary of the Commission for the Authentic Interpretation of the Code of Canon Law at the Roman Curia . Coussa was an advisor to Angelo Giuseppe Roncalli, later Pope John XXIII. In 1961 he appointed him titular Archbishop of Hierapolis for the Melkite Church and Pro-Secretary of the Congregation for the Eastern Churches . On April 16, 1961, the Pope himself donated his episcopal ordination in the Sistine Chapel ; Co- consecrators were Giovanni Mele , Bishop of Lungro for the Italo-Albanian Church , Giuseppe Perniciaro , Auxiliary Bishop in the Eparchy Piana degli Albanesi , Archimandrite Théodore Minisci , Hegumen of the Monastery of Santa Maria di Grottaferrata , and Archimandrite Ambroise Kasser of the Superior General of the Order . A year later, in 1962, Coussa became secretary of that congregation and received in the consistory of March 19 of the same year from John XXIII. the cardinal's hat and shortly thereafter the appointment as cardinal priest of Sant'Atanasio dei Greci .

Cardinal Coussa died in Rome that summer and was first buried in the Campo Verano cemetery. In May 1963 his bones were transferred to his former titular church, Sant'Atanasio dei Greci .

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SURNAME Coussa, Gabriel Acacius
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Coussa, Gabriel Léon (original name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Syrian clergyman, Archbishop of the Melkite Greek Catholic Church, expert in canon law and cardinal
DATE OF BIRTH August 3, 1897
PLACE OF BIRTH Aleppo
DATE OF DEATH July 29, 1962
Place of death Rome