Ignatius Ziadé (also Ignace Ziade; , 26 January 1906 in

Herharaya Herharaya (alternatively Harhraya, Herhrayya; ) is a township in the municipality and administrative division of Jdaidet Ghazir – Harharaya – Qattine in the Keserwan District of the Keserwan-Jbeil Governorate in Lebanon. The town is about ...

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– 31 March 1994 in Beirut, Lebanon) was the Archbishop of the

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and the Maronite Catholic Archeparchy of Beirut.

Life

Igntius Ziadé was born in

in the

Keserwan District Keserwan District (, transliteration: ''Qaḍā' Kisrawān'') is a district (''qadaa'') in Keserwan-Jbeil Governorate, Lebanon, to the northeast of Lebanon's capital Beirut. The capital, Jounieh, is overwhelmingly Maronite Christian. The area ...

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, in

. He was consecrated to priesthood at the age of 23 on 26 May 1929 in Syria. On 27 April 1946 he was appointed Bishop of the

. His episcopal ordination was celebrated on 24 November 1946 by then-

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, and his co-consecrators were

François Ayoub François Ayoub (born on 11 July 1899 in Aleppo, Syria - died on 2 June 1966) was a Syrian Archbishop of the Maronite Catholic Archeparchy of Aleppo and the Maronite Catholic Archeparchy of Cyprus. Life On 16 May 1925, Françoise Ayoub was ordain ...

, Archeparch of Cyprus and

Pietro Dib Pietro Dib (13 June 1881 in Dlepta, Lebanon – 4 November 1965) was a Maronite bishop of the Maronite Catholic Eparchy of Cairo. Life Pietro Dib received his ordination to the priesthood on 16 March 1907. In 1946 he was appointed by Pope Pius ...

, Eparch of Cairo. On 26 January 1952 Ziadé he was appointed to the seat Maronite Archbishop of Beirut. At the age of 80 years Ignatus Ziadé presented his resignation on 4 April 1986. Emeritus Archbishop Ignatius Ziadé died at the age of 88 years, on 31 March 1994 in Beirut. Ziadé had been for 65 years as Maronite priest and bishop for 47 years. In these decades of his pastoral ministry, he served as co-consecrator of

Elie Farah Elie Farah (27 December 1909 in Kafar Berhem, Lebanon – 22 July 2003) was Archbishop of the Maronite Catholic Archeparchy of Cyprus from 1954 to 1986. Life Elie Farah received on April 9, 1935 the sacrament of ordination to the priesthood. ...

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Antoine Torbey Antoine Torbey (15 September 1925 – 9 August 2004) was a Maronite bishop of the Maronite Catholic Eparchy of Latakia. Life Antoine Torbey received on 24 March 1951 his priestly ordination. Pope John Paul II appointed him on May 2, 1986 Bishop ...

Paul-Emile Saadé Paul-Emile Saadé (9 July 1933 – 21 September 2022) was a Lebanese Maronite Catholic prelate who was Emeritus Maronite Eparch of the Maronite Catholic Eparchy of Batroun. Life Paul-Emile Saadé was born in Ehden, Mount Lebanon on 9 July 193 ...

, and

Bechara Boutros al-Rahi Bechara Boutros Al-Ra'i (or Raï; ; ; ) (born 25 February 1940) is the 77th Maronite Patriarch of Antioch, and head of the Maronite Church, a position he has held since 15 March 2011, succeeding Patriarch Nasrallah Boutros Sfeir. Rahi was mad ...

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* http://www.catholic-hierarchy.org/bishop/bziade.html {{DEFAULTSORT:Ziade, Ignace 1906 births 1994 deaths Lebanese Maronites 20th-century Maronite Catholic bishops