Ignatius Ghattas

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Ignatius Ghattas BS (born December 25, 1920 in Nazareth , † October 11, 1992 in Cleveland ) was bishop of the Melkite Greek Catholic Church in Newton ( USA ).

Life

Ignatius Ghattas grew up in the small village of Maalula in Syria among the Christians of the Melkite Greek Catholic Church. After attending primary school , on November 5, 1933, he entered the monastery of the Melkite Basilians of the Most Holy Redeemer . Here he made his perpetual religious vows in 1943 and was ordained a religious priest of the Basilians on July 7, 1946 . He has taught languages ​​(Greek, Latin, English and French) and mathematics at the Melkite Seminary . He was the spiritual father of the Salvatorian Missionary Sisters and taught the novices in languages ​​and liturgical chant. Until 1952 he was secretary to the superior general of the Basilians.

In the United States

In 1952, Ghattas was sent to Cleveland, Ohio, to serve as vicar in the parish of St. Elias, and in 1955 he was pastor of that ward . Ghattas did a lot of community work, led a workers' association and promoted the building of churches. As organizer of the visitation of the Patriarch of Antioch Archbishop Maximos IV. Sayegh (1955) by the United States and the General Assembly of the Melkite clergy of the United States in Cleveland (1958), he made his name.

Episcopal dignity

The Synod of Bishops of the Melkite Greek Catholic Church appointed him in July 1989 to succeed Joseph Elias Tawil as Bishop of Newton, who was confirmed on December 11, 1989 by Pope John Paul II . On February 23, 1990 he became Archbishop Maximos V Hakim and the co-consecrators Archbishop Joseph Elias Tawil and Archbishop François Abou Mokh BS for consecrated bishop and was until his death in office. He was succeeded by Bishop John Adel Elya BS.

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SURNAME Ghattas, Ignatius
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American clergyman, Melkite Greek Catholic Bishop of Newton
DATE OF BIRTH December 25, 1920
PLACE OF BIRTH Nazareth
DATE OF DEATH October 11, 1992
Place of death Cleveland