Youssef Anis Abi-Aad
Youssef Anis Abi Aad, IdP[1] (12 January 1940 – 6 May 2017) was the archeparch of the Maronite Catholic Archeparchy of Aleppo until November 2013.
Life[]
Youssef Anis Abi Aad joined the Prado Secular Institute and received on 18 June 1966 his ordination to the priesthood.
On 7 June 1997 he was elected by the Maronite Synod to the Archbishopric of Aleppo. The Maronite Patriarch of Antioch and all the East, Cardinal Nasrallah Boutros Sfeir, gave him on 1 November of the same year the episcopal ordination. His co-consecrators were Bechara Boutros al-Rahi, OMM, Bishop of Byblos and present Maronite Patriarch of Antioch, and Paul Youssef Matar, Archbishop of Beirut.
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External links[]
- http://www.catholic-hierarchy.org/bishop/babiaad.html [self-published]
Categories:
- 1940 births
- 2017 deaths
- Lebanese Maronites
- 21st-century Maronite Catholic bishops
- 20th-century Maronite Catholic bishops
- Middle Eastern religious biography stubs
- Syrian people stubs
- Eastern Catholic bishop stubs