Germanos Mouakkad

Germanos Mouakkad (April 1853 in Damascus , † February 11, 1912 in Beirut ) was a Melkite Greek Catholic clergyman and bishop of Baalbek .

Life

He was born in early April 1853 to Issa Mouakkad and his wife Marie Kayata. His parents were Melkites . At his baptism he was given the name Joseph. Until he was twelve he attended a Christian school in his home parish, after which he worked as an assistant to a merchant.

At the age of sixteen he went - against the fierce resistance of his mother - as a novice to the monastery of the Holy Savior, where he took the monk name Ignace . After studying philosophy with Joseph Bakos for a few years , he was ordained a priest by Clément Bahous and worked as a pastor in Cairo and Damascus. From 1880 to 1886 he was Patriarchal Vicar of the Melkite Patriarch of Jerusalem . On March 16, 1886 he received the episcopal ordination and became - now under the name Germanos - Bishop of the Eparchy of Baalbek. In 1896 he received during a stay in Rome from Pope Leo XIII. permission to found an order for missionary priests, which he was able to achieve in 1903. The mother house of the Mission Society of St. Paul was established in Harissa , Lebanon .

Germanos Mouakkad died on February 11, 1912 in a French hospital in Beirut as a result of a long-term illness.

In 2014 a Lebanese postage stamp with his picture was issued.

literature

• T. Khoury: Mgr Germanos Mouakkad. Fondateur de la Congrégation Melkite des Paulistes (1853–1912) . In: Echos d'Orient . tape XVI , 1913, p. 313–321 (French, online [accessed November 22, 2014] obituary).

Web links

• Entry on Germanos (Ignace) Mouakkad (Mouaqqad) on catholic-hierarchy.org ; Retrieved November 22, 2014.

Individual evidence

1. ^ Société des Missionnaires de St. Paul. www.opuslibani.org, archived from the original on November 13, 2008 ; accessed on June 13, 2020 (French). 

predecessor	Office	successor
Basile Naser	Bishop of Baalbek 1886–1894	Agapitos Malouf