Ignace Raad

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Ignace Raad BS (born December 20, 1923 in Kafar-Nabrakh , Lebanon , † July 19, 1999 in Montreal , Canada ) was Archbishop of the Melkite Greek Catholic Church of Sidon in Lebanon and judge at the Court of the Roman Rota .

Life

At the age of 11 he entered the monastery of the Melkite Basilians of the Most Holy Redeemer in Joun . In 1945 he took the perpetual vow and prepared himself as a monk for the priesthood . His predecessor in office, Bishop Basile Khoury BS of Sidon, consecrated him in 1947 as a deacon and the Patriarch of Antioch , Archbishop Maximos IV. Sayegh , consecrated him on November 9, 1947 as religious priest of the Melkite Basilians. He then taught for two years at the Basilian seminary and received his doctorate in 1949 in Rome with a doctorate in political science and a doctorate in canon and civil law .

From 1953 to 1972 he was pastor of the parish "Immaculate Conception of Heliopolis " in Cairo . During this time he was ordained an archimandrite and was in other functions in the Archdiocese of Alexandria at the Melkite University Professor of Religion , President of the Patriarchal Court of Appeal and Deputy Patriarchal Vicar of Alexandria.

In 1972 he moved to Rome to the Vatican and was a judge at the court of the Roman Rota until 1981 . The Melkite Synod of Bishops elected him Archbishop of Sidon on September 9, 1981. On October 30, 1981 Ignace Raad Archbishop Maximos V Hakim and the co-consecrators Archbishop Nicolas Hajj SDS and Archbishop François Abou Mokh BS consecrated bishop. On September 18, 1985, he returned his office to the Synod of the Melkite Greek Catholic Church and took over the presidency of the ecclesiastical court of the Melkite Church in Canada, based in Montreal . Archbishop Georges Kwaïter was elected as his successor in 1987 . He was Archbishop Emeritus of Sidon until his death on July 19, 1999 and was buried on July 23, 1999 in Montreal.

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Welcome to Kafar-Nabrakh
  2. ↑ The place Joun is northeast of Sidon . The town is in the immediate vicinity of the ancient town of the same name in southern Lebanon, which was destroyed by an earthquake, cf. Bruce Condé: Joun, Seat of Lady Hester Stanhope. In: Places in Lebanon. Retrieved June 12, 2020 .
  3. ↑ The Immaculate Conception church of the Greek-melkite catholics Heliopolis Cairo ( Memento from February 27, 2015 in the Internet Archive )
personal data
SURNAME Raad, Ignace
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Lebanese Archbishop
DATE OF BIRTH December 20, 1923
PLACE OF BIRTH Kafar-Nabrakh , Lebanon
DATE OF DEATH July 19, 1999
Place of death Montreal , Canada