Nicholas Baalbaki

Ghassan Nikolaus Baalbaki ( Arabic غسان نيقولاوس بعلبكي; * 1957 in Damascus ) is a Syrian priest of the Greek Orthodox Patriarchate of Antioch and since 2017 as Nicholas ( Arabic نيقولاوس) Metropolitan of the Orthodox Archdiocese of Hama in the St. George's Cathedral in Hama .

Life

Ghassan Nikolaus Baalbaki was born in 1957 and obtained his university entrance qualification with distinction in Damascus . He studied human medicine at the University of Damascus and graduated in 1980 with a doctorate in medicine . In the following years until 1984 he specialized in general surgery. On November 8, 1985 he was ordained a deacon by the Patriarch Ignatius IV and a priest in 1986. In 1989 he became an archimandrite .

Ghassan Nikolaus Baalbaki served as a priest in the Greek Orthodox churches of Damascus and in the countryside. His focus was the church youth work, which he founded in many churches in Damascus. He also worked to involve women more in church activities. He later founded the Brotherhood of the Holy Cross in Damascus with a view to Orthodox families.

From 1993 to 1998 he studied Orthodox theology at the University of Balamand . In 2001 Patriarch Ignatius IV made him head of the Greek Orthodox hospital al-Hosn near al-Hawash ( Wadi an-Nasara ). On July 10, 2011 he was named pastor of Bludan (51 km north-west of Damascus). In 2013 he became a judge at the ecclesiastical court in the Diocese of Damascus. On March 30, 2017, John X appointed him accredited patriarch and representative of the Archdiocese of Hama. After the death of Metropolitan Elias (Saliba) , he was elected Metropolitan of the Archdiocese of Hama by the Holy Synod on June 7, 2017. The inauguration took place on June 15 and 16, 2017 in the St. George's Cathedral in Hama.

Web links

• حماه وتوابعها - المطران: صاحب السيادة المتروبوليت نيقولاوس (بعلبكي) الجزيل الاحترام - Ghassan Nikolaus Baalbaki (غسان نيقولاوس بعلبكي). Greek Orthodox Patriarchate of Antioch and All the East.