Roland Aboujaoudé Explained
Roland Aboujaoudé (7 September 1930 - 2 May 2019) was a Lebanese Catholic Maronite eparch of the Maronite Catholic Patriarchate of Antioch.[1]
Life
Roland Aboujaoudé was born on 7 September 1930 in Jal-Edib, Lebanon. He was ordained priest on 25 April 1959.[2] On 12 July 1975,[3] Aboujaoudé was appointed patriarchal vicar of Antioch and titular bishop of Arca in Phoenicia dei Maroniti.[4] He was ordained bishop on 23 August 1975 by the hands of the Maronite Patriarch of Antioch Cardinal Anthony Peter Khoraish and his co-consecrators were Elie Farah, Archeparch of Cyprus and Joseph Merhi, MLM, Eparch of Cairo.
On 1985[3] Aboujaoudé was appointed Vicar general of Antioch till 1988 when he was appointed auxiliary bishop of Antioch.
Since 1997 he had been a Curial Bishop and Protosyncellus of the Maronite Patriarch.
On 6 June 2011, he presented his resignation from the post of auxiliary bishop and it was accepted by Pope Benedict XVI.[5]
Co-consecrator bishop
Roland Aboujaoudé was co-consecrator in episcopal ordinations of following bishops:
- Paul Fouad Tabet, titular bishop "pro hac vice" of Sinna (Apostolic Nuncio)
- Elias Shaheen, Eparch of Montréal
- Khalil Abi-Nader, Archeparch of Beirut
- Joseph Mohsen Béchara, Archeparch of Cyprus
- Abdallah Bared, titular bishop of Tarsus dei Maroniti and auxiliary bishop of Antioch
- Antoine Torbey, Eparch of Latakia
- Paul-Emile Saadé, titular bishop of Apamea in Syria dei Maroniti as auxiliary bishop in Antioch
- Bechara Boutros al-Rahi, OMM, Titular Bishop of Caesarea Philippi and auxiliary bishop of Antioch
- Philippe Boutros Chebaya, Eparch of Baalbek
- Pierre Callaos, Archeparch of Aleppo
- Guy-Paul Noujaim, titular bishop of Caesarea Philippi and auxiliary bishop of Antioch
- Joseph Mahfouz, OLM, Eparch of São Paulo
- Charbel Georges Merhi, CML, Eparch of Buenos Aires
- Francis Némé Baïssari, titular bishop of Aradus and auxiliary bishop of Antioch
- Paul Youssef Matar, titular bishop of Tarsus dei Maroniti and auxiliary bishop of Antioch
- Maroun Khoury Sader, Archeparch of Tyre
- Gabriel Toubia, Archeparch of Tripoli
- Joseph Khoury, titular bishop of Chonochora and auxiliary bishop of Antioch
- Paul-Mounged El-Hachem, Eparch of Baalbek
- Pierre Wadih Tayah, Eparch of Mexico
- Paul Nabil El-Sayah, Archeparch of Haifa and the Holy Land
- Tanios El Khoury, Eparch of Sidon
- Youhanna Fouad El-Hage, Archeparch of Tripoli
- Robert Joseph Shaheen, Eparch of Los Angeles
- Massoud Massoud, Eparch of Latakia
- Ad Abi Karam, Eparch of Sydney
- Mansour Hobeika, Eparch of Zahle
- Georges Saad Abi Younes, OLM, Eparch of Mexico
- Chucrallah-Nabil El-Hage, Archeparch of Tyre
- Gregory John Mansour, Eparch of Brooklyn
- Georges Bou-Jaoudé, CM, Archeparch of Tripoli
- Simon Atallah, OAM, Eparch of Baalbek
- François Eid, OMM, Eparch of Cairo
- Elias Nassar, Eparch of Sidon
External links
- http://www.catholic-hierarchy.org/bishop/babouj.html
Notes and References
- Web site: Bishops who are not Ordinaries of Sees: A… – AF…. www.gcatholic.org.
- Web site: Bishops who are not Ordinaries of Sees: A… – AF…. www.gcatholic.org.
- Web site: Ernennung 1975. www.apostolische-nachfolge.de.
- Web site: Titulare A. www.apostolische-nachfolge.de.
- Web site: Asien2. www.apostolische-nachfolge.de.
