Giacinto-Boulos Marcuzzo
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Giacinto-Boulos Marcuzzo (born 24 April 1945, in San Polo di Piave,
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) is a Roman Catholic Auxiliary Bishop Emeritus of the
Latin Patriarchate of Jerusalem The Latin Patriarchate of Jerusalem () is the Latin Catholic ecclesiastical patriarchate in Jerusalem, officially seated in the Church of the Holy Sepulchre. The Latin Patriarch of Jerusalem is the archbishop of Latin Church Catholics of th ...
, resident in
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. As at December 2020, he was Latin Patriarchal Vicar for Jerusalem and Palestine.


Biography

Giacinto-Boulos Marcuzzo studied philosophy and theology at the Major Patriarchal Seminary in Beit Jala. He was ordained a priest on June 22, 1969 in the Church of All Nations. Then he worked as a chaplain in Beit Jala in the
West Bank The West Bank is located on the western bank of the Jordan River and is the larger of the two Palestinian territories (the other being the Gaza Strip) that make up the State of Palestine. A landlocked territory near the coast of the Mediter ...
, in Ramallah and in Malakal in southern Sudan, including as director of the minor seminary. Marcuzzo was also teacher at the Minor Seminary of the Latin Patriarchate in Beit Jala. In the years 1977-1980 Marcuzzo studied Dogmatic theology at the
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and theology of spirituality at the Teresianum in Rome. After obtaining a doctorate Marcuzzo became a lecturer at the Major Seminary in Beit Jala, being for a time its rector. He also lectured Patrology and Arabic Christian literature at the Bethlehem University. In 1993 Marcuzzo was appointed Auxiliary Bishop of the Latin Patriarch of Jerusalem as
Titular bishop A titular bishop in various churches is a bishop who is not in charge of a diocese. By definition, a bishop is an "overseer" of a community of the faithful, so when a priest is ordained a bishop, the tradition of the Catholic, Eastern Orthodox an ...
of Siminina. He was consecrated bishop on the hands of the
Latin Patriarch of Jerusalem The Latin Patriarchate of Jerusalem () is the Latin Catholic ecclesiastical patriarchate in Jerusalem, officially seated in the Church of the Holy Sepulchre. The Latin Patriarch of Jerusalem is the archbishop of Latin Church Catholics of th ...
Michel Sabbah Michel Sabbah (; born 19 March 1933) is a Catholic Church in Palestine, Palestinian Catholic prelate who served as the Latin Patriarchate of Jerusalem, Latin Patriarch of Jerusalem from 1987 to 2008, the first non-Italian to hold the position in m ...
on 3 July 1993 in the
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. From 29 October 1994 he became titular bishop of
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. He resides in Nazareth as patriarchal vicar for Israel. Marcuzzo is fluent in Italian, Arabic, French, English, German and Hebrew. He retired on 29 August 2020.


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Catholic-hierarchy.org
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