OLM
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Lebanon
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- died 25 August 2010, Ghadir, Lebanon) was a clergyman of the Maronite rite and
eparch
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of the
Maronite Catholic Eparchy of Our Lady of Lebanon of São Paulo
The Eparchy of Our Lady of Lebanon of São Paulo (; ) is a Maronite Church ecclesiastical territory or eparchy of the Catholic Church in Brazil. Its episcopal see is São Paulo. The current bishop is Edgard Madi. The Eparchy of Our Lady of Leba ...
. He was the third eparch of the
Maronite Church
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in Brazil.
Biography
Joseph Mahfouz joined the Congregation of the
OLM
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and received on 29 June, 1960, the ordination to the priesthood.
Pope John Paul II
Pope John Paul II (born Karol Józef Wojtyła; 18 May 19202 April 2005) was head of the Catholic Church and sovereign of the Vatican City State from 16 October 1978 until Death and funeral of Pope John Paul II, his death in 2005.
In his you ...
appointed him on June 9, 1990, Archbishop of the Eparchy of the Our Lady of Lebanon in São Paulo.
Maronite Patriarch of Antioch
This is a list of the Maronite patriarchs of Antioch and all the East, the Primate (bishop), primate of the Maronite Church, one of the Eastern Catholic Churches. Starting with Paul Peter Massad in 1854, after becoming patriarch of the Maronite Ca ...
,
Nasrallah Boutros Sfeir
Nasrallah Boutros Sfeir ('; ; ; 15 May 1920 – 12 May 2019) was the 76th Maronite Catholic Patriarchate of Antioch and the Whole Levant and head of the Maronite Church from 1986 to 2011. He was made a cardinal by Pope John Paul II in 1994.
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gave him on 12 August of the same year the episcopal ordination. His co-consecrators were Bishops
Roland Aboujaoudé
Roland Aboujaoudé (7 September 1930 – 2 May 2019) was a Lebanese Catholic Maronite eparch of the Maronite Catholic Patriarchate of Antioch.
Life
Roland Aboujaoudé was born on 7 September 1930 in Jal-Edib, Lebanon. He was ordained priest on ...
, Maronite
auxiliary bishop
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...
of Antioch 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 ...
, OMM, future Maronite Patriarch of Antioch. Mahfouz resigned as Bishop of Our Lady of Lebanon in São Paulo on 14 October, 2006. He died of cancer and was buried in the cemetery Nisbei Ghosta in Lebanon.
Works
* Saint Charbel Makhlouf: monk and hermit of the Lebanese Maronite Order. 1976.
* La Servante de Dieu La Soeur Rafqa de Himalaya. Rome, 1980.
* Short history of the Maronite Church. Imprimerie St. Paul, 1986.
* The blessed Nimatullah Kassab Al-Hardini. In: Volume 26 by Third Centennial Lebanese Maronite Order Publications, Monastery of Saints Cyprian and Justine, 1998.
* The blessed Nimatullah Kassab Al-Hardini: His life, words and spiritualities. Lebanese Maronite Order.