Tanios El Khoury
Tanios El Khoury (born 4 May 1930) is an emeritus eparch of the Maronite Catholic Eparchy of Sidon. He was born in Saghbine, Lebanon.
Life[]
El Khoury was born in Saghbine, Lebanon. On 14 June 1958 he received his ordination to the priesthood and was incardinated in the clergy of the Eparchy of Sidon. On 8 June 1996, Pope John Paul II appointed him Eparch of Sidon. The Maronite Patriarch of Antioch, Cardinal Nasrallah Pierre Sfeir, ordained him bishop on 5 October of the same year. His co-consecrators were Boutros Gemayel, Archeparch of Cyprus, and Roland Aboujaoudé, auxiliary bishop of Antioch. On December 28, 2005, Pope Benedict XVI accepted his age-related resignation.
External links[]
- http://www.catholic-hierarchy.org/bishop/bkhout.html
- http://www.gcatholic.org/dioceses/diocese/said1.htm
Categories:
- 1930 births
- Lebanese clergy
- Living people
- 20th-century Maronite Catholic bishops
- 21st-century Maronite Catholic bishops
- Eastern Catholic bishops in Lebanon
- Middle Eastern religious biography stubs
- Lebanese people stubs