Georges Nicolas Haddad

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Georges Nicolas Haddad SMSP (born June 24, 1957 in Beirut , Lebanon ) is Melkite Archbishop of Banyas , Lebanon.

Church career

He was ordained a priest on August 28, 1983 and is a member of the Melkite religious order “Mission Society of St. Paul” .

On April 20, 2002, he was appointed titular archbishop of Myra dei Greco-Melkiti with a simultaneous appointment as Apostolic Exarch of Argentina . He received the episcopal ordination on June 23, 2002 from Gregory III. Laham BS , the Patriarch of Antioch , and the co-consecrators André Haddad BS, Archbishop of Zahle and Furzol , and Georges El-Murr BC , Archbishop of Petra and Philadelphia .

On March 21, 2003, Haddad was appointed Apostolic Administrator of Akka in Israel alongside Archbishop Emeritus Pierre Mouallem . He resigned as Bishop of Argentina on December 19, 2005 and resigned as Apostolic Administrator of Akka on February 7, 2006. His appointment as Archbishop of Banyas took place on October 17, 2006.

In October 2010 he was a participant in the special assembly of the Synod of Bishops in Rome . The Synod of Bishops dealt with the situation of the Eastern Churches in the Middle East ; the Archbishop commented on this in an intervention. He criticized the unsatisfactory implementation of religious freedom in Lebanon and referred to the constitution of 1926. This proclaimed great religious freedom, but it was not fully realized. In his statement he called for a deepening of the interreligious dialogue and asked all religious communities in Lebanon to cooperate.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. Documents on the Special Assembly of the Synod of Bishops [1]
  2. Vatican: Middle East Synod deliberates on the situation of Christians in Iran [2] (Catholic International Press Agency)
predecessor Office successor
Antoine Hayek BC Archbishop of Banyas
since 2006