Georges Nicolas Haddad, SMSP (born 24 June 1957 in

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, Lebanon) is the current bishop of the

Melkite Greek Catholic Archeparchy of Baniyas Melkite Greek Catholic Archeparchy of Baniyas (in Latin: Archeparchy Caesariensis or Paneadensis) is a diocese of the Melkite Greek Catholic Church suffragan of the Melkite Greek Catholic Archeparchy of Tyre. In 2009 there were 2,500 baptized. It ...

, Lebanon.

Ecclesiastical career

Haddad was ordained a priest on August 28, 1983 as a member of the Melkite religious community Missionary Society of St. Paul. On 20 April 2002, he was appointed as Titular Archbishop of Myra of Greek Melkites with simultaneous appointment as Apostolic Exarch of Argentina. His episcopal ordination was performed on 23 June 2002 by

Gregory III Laham Gregory III Laham, B.S. (; ; born Lutfy Laham, December 15, 1933, in Darayya, Syria), Emeritus Patriarch of Antioch and All the East, of Alexandria and Jerusalem, is the former spiritual leader of the Melkite Greek Catholic Church. He was elec ...

BS, Melkite

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, and his co-consecrators were

André Haddad André Haddad, BS (20 September 1930 in Roum, Lebanon – 13 December 2017) was an archbishop of the Melkite Greek Catholic Archeparchy of Zahle and Forzol. Ecclesiastical career On June 13, 1954, Andre Haddad was ordained to the priesthood and ...

, BS (Archbishop of Zahle and Furzol) and

Georges El-Murr Georges El-Murr, BC (11 October 1930 in Ka'a at Baalbek, Lebanon – 8 February 2017) was Archbishop of the Melkite Greek Catholic Archeparchy of Petra and Philadelphia in Amman. Life Georges El-Murr was ordained a priest of the Order of St. J ...

, BC ( Archbishop of Petra and Philadelphia). On 21 March 2003 Haddad was appointed

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of Akka in Israel. On 19 December 2005 he resigned as Bishop of Argentina, and on 7 February 2006 followed the resignation as Apostolic Administrator of Akka. His appointment as Archbishop of Banyas was held on 17 October 2006. In October 2010, Haddad participated in the Special Assembly of the Synod of Bishops in Rome. The Synod of Bishops treated the situation of the Eastern Churches in the Middle East, and the archbishop participated in an intervention. He criticized the unsatisfactory implementation of religious freedom in Lebanon and on the basis that the constitution of 1926. Lebanese constitution proclaims a great religious freedom, which will not realize the full extent. Haddad called in his statement the deepening of inter-religious dialogue and requested of all religious communities in Lebanon to cooperate.

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Bishop Haddad

Greek-Melkite Archdiocese of Baniyas
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