Ignatius Joseph III Younan
His Beatitude Mar Ignatius Joseph III. Younan , whose real name is Joseph F. Younan , (* 15 November 1944 in Hassakeh (Hassake), Syria ) is Syrian Catholic Patriarch of Antioch and head of Rome with Uniate Syrian Catholic Church , based in Beirut .
Life
Joseph F. Younan, one of nine siblings, studied at the St. Ephrem St. Benoît Seminary of the French Benedictines in Charfet, Lebanon . He then studied theology and philosophy at the Collegio di Propaganda Fide of the Jesuits in Rome and at the Pontifical Urban University in Rome. Joseph F. Younan was ordained a priest on September 12, 1971 and was then a teacher at the seminary in Charfet, and later also at the Regens seminary. In his home diocese of Hassakeh he was head of the catechism department from 1973 to 1980 , and from 1980 pastor in the Basilica of the Annunciation in Beirut.
In 1986 he built the Syrian Catholic community in the New York City area ( New York and New Jersey ). In 1995 Pope John Paul II appointed him the first bishop of the Syrian Catholic eparchy "Our Lady of Deliverance of Newark". The episcopal ordination in the Basilica of St. Peter and Paul in Qamishli , Syria , was donated to him on January 7, 1996 by Bishop Ignatius Antoine II. Hayek , Patriarch of the Syrian Catholic Church of Antioch; Co- consecrators were Eustathe Joseph Mounayer , Archbishop of Damascus, and Denys Raboula Antoine Beylouni , Archbishop of Aleppo in Syria.
In addition to Arabic and Aramaic, he also speaks Turkish , English , French , Italian , Latin and German .
Patriarch of Antioch
On January 21, 2009 he was elected Patriarch by the Syrian Catholic Synod of Bishops in Rome as successor to SS Ignatius Pierre VIII. Abdel-Ahad . On January 23, 2009, he made his inaugural visit to Pope Benedict XVI.
On Blood Friday , May 14, 2010, Younan was the main celebrant and patron of the pontifical office at the Weingartner Blutritt , an annual equestrian procession to the relic of the Holy Blood , which has been kept in the Basilica of St. Martin in Weingarten since March 5, 1094 .
In August 2017, he complained that the West had "betrayed" the Christian minorities in the Middle East.
Orders and decorations
- Benedict medal of the pastoral care unit St. Benedikt Ochsenhausen , 2010
Web links
- Entry to Ignatius Joseph III. Younan on catholic-hierarchy.org
- "Mar Ephrem Joseph Younan has been elected the new Syrian Catholic Patriarch of Antioch." , Vatican Radio , January 22, 2009
- Biography about Ignatius Joseph III. Younan ( Memento from June 26, 2008 in the Internet Archive )
- "Germany should work for reconciliation in Syria and Iraq" (Interview on November 23, 2015)
Individual evidence
- ^ Südkurier : Blutritt - Blutritt in Weingarten from May 8, 2010, accessed on May 13, 2010
- ↑ https://www.americamagazine.org/politics-society/2017/08/15/syriac-catholic-patriarch-says-west-has- Betrayed-christian- minorities
| predecessor | Office | successor |
|---|---|---|
| Ignatius Pierre VIII. Abdel-Ahad |
Patriarch of Antioch since 2009 |
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Bishop of Newark 1995–2009 |
Yousif Benham Habash |
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Younan, Ignatius Joseph III. |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Younan, Joseph F. (real name) |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Syrian clergyman, Syrian Catholic patriarch |
| DATE OF BIRTH | November 15, 1944 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Hassakeh (Hassaké), Syria |