Antoine Nassif Explained

Type:Bishop
Honorific-Prefix:His Excellency
Antoine Nassif
Syriac Catholic Apostolic Exarch of Canada
Church:Syriac Catholic Church
Diocese:Syriac Catholic Apostolic Exarchate for Canada
Appointed:January 3, 2016
Ordination:July 26, 1992
Ordained By:Ignatius Antony II Hayyek
Consecration:January 23, 2016
Consecrated By:Ignatius Joseph III Yonan
Rank:Apostolic Exarch
Birth Date:12 February 1969
Birth Place:Beirut, Lebanon
Previous Post:Rector of the Patriarchal Seminary
Religion:Syriac Catholicism

Paul Antoine Nassif (born February 21, 1969, in Beirut, Lebanon) is the current Syriac Catholic Exarch of Canada.

Life

Antoine Nassif received on 26 July 1992 by the Syriac Catholic Patriarch of Antioch, Ignatius Antony II Hayyek, the sacrament of Holy orders.

On January 7, 2016 Pope Francis appointed him titular bishop of Serigene and ordered him the first Syriac Catholic Exarch of Canada.[1] The Syriac Catholic Patriarch of Antioch, Ignatius Joseph III Yonan, on 23 January of the same year, gave him his episcopal consecration; his co-consecrators were the Emeritus Curial Archbishop in the Syriac Catholic Patriarchate of Antioch, Denys Raboula Antoine Beylouni, and the bishop of the Eparchy of Our Lady of Deliverance of Newark, Yousif Benham Habash.

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Notes and References

  1. http://press.vatican.va/content/salastampa/it/bollettino/pubblico/2016/01/07/0011/00017.html press.va