Joseph Kallas

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Joseph Kallas SMSP (born September 24, 1931 in Fakiha , Lebanon ) is a retired Melkite Archbishop of Beirut and Jbeil .

Church career

He was ordained a priest for the community of the White Fathers on August 13, 1958 , but later switched to the Melkite religious order, Mission Society of St. Paul , of which he was superior general from 1987 to 1993. On January 15, 2000 he was named Archbishop of Beirut and Jbeil. He was ordained bishop on February 19, 2000, Jean Mansour SMSP, auxiliary bishop in the Melkite Patriarchate of Antioch ; Co- consecrators were André Haddad BS , Archbishop of Zahlé and Furzol , and Jean Assaad Haddad , Archbishop of Tire . On May 25, 2010, he resigned from his office as bishop.

Interreligious Dialogue

The Archbishop promotes interreligious dialogue between Islam and Christians, so he took part in many events. This also included participation in the series of events “People in Europe”, in which he and Archbishop Louis Sako (Archbishop of the Chaldean Catholic Church of Kirkuk , Iraq ), Bishop Antoine Audo SJ (Bishop of the Chaldean Catholic Church in Aleppo , Syria ) and the theologian Adel Theodor Khoury on the subject of “Peace instead of bombs in the Middle East”.

From October 10th to October 24th, 2010 he was a participant in the Special Assembly of the Synod of Bishops for the Middle East and intervened for understanding for the Melkite Greek Catholic Church. Basically he underlined the difficult and historical development in the Eastern Churches and their apostolic understanding in the sense of the Apostle Paul .

Under the direction of Gregory III. Laham , the Patriarch of Antioch and the whole Orient, Alexandria and Jerusalem and at the same time the head of the Melkite Greek Catholic Church, he was a participant in the Synod of the Melkite Greek Catholic Church in October 2006.

Co-consecrator

Archbishop Kallas was co-consecrator of Joseph Absi SMSP, Titular Bishop of Tarsus dei Greco-Melkiti and Auxiliary Bishop in Antioch, Georges Bacaouni , Archbishop of Tire, Michel Abrass BA , Titular Archbishop of Myra dei Greco-Melkiti and Auxiliary Bishop of Antioch , and Eadlie Bechara , Archbishop of Sidon .

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Resignation on May 25, 2010 according to Catholic-hierarchy, according to Gcatholic it was on June 15, 2011
  2. ^ Announcement ( memento of April 9, 2009 in the Internet Archive ) of the event Peace instead of Bombs in the Middle East as part of the series of events “People in Europe” 2004 by the Passau publishing group on October 22, 2004
  3. ↑ Intervention by Msgr. Joseph Kallas ( Memento from December 13, 2014 in the Internet Archive ), Vatican Radio from October 17, 2010 (French)
  4. ↑ Final Communiqué of the Synod of the Melkite Greek Catholic Church, Ain Traz, October 9-14, 2006 ( Memento from July 7, 2010 in the Internet Archive ) Synod of the Melkite Greek Catholic Church (English, French)
personal data
SURNAME Kallas, Joseph
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Lebanese clergyman, Archbishop of Beirut and Jbeil
DATE OF BIRTH September 24, 1931
PLACE OF BIRTH Fakiha , Lebanon