João Chedid,
OMM (18 February 1914 – 31 July 1991) was the first
Maronite
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Bishop of the
Maronite Catholic Eparchy of Our Lady of Lebanon of São Paulo in Brazil.
Life
Chedid was born in Kherbet-Kanafar,
Lebanon
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. On 20 December 1941 he was ordained a priest in the
OMM. On April 21, 1956, he was appointed
auxiliary bishop
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...
to the
Ordinariate for Eastern Catholics in Brazil, at the same time he was also appointed
titular bishop
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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 Arca in Phoenicia dei Maroniti.
The Maronite Patriarch of Antioch and all the East
Paul Peter Meouchi ordained him bishop on June 29, 1956, assisted by the co-consecrators
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) and
Anthony Peter Khoraish (then Eparch of Sidon).
From 1968 to 1971 Chedid was also Patriarchal Vicar of the Maronites in Brazil.
On November 29, 1971, he was appointed Bishop to São Paulo, in this office, he was on 27 February 1988 named Archbishop
Pro hac vice
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Pro, PRO or variants thereof might also refer to:
People
* Miguel Pro (1891–1927), Mexican priest
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* Mlungisi Mdluli (born 1980), South African retire ...
to São Paulo. He was a Council Father during the second session of the
II Vatican Council. In 1961 he was co-consecrator of
Nasrallah Boutros Sfeir, who later became Patriarch of Antioch. Chedid resigned on June 9, 1990, as Bishop and became an Emeritus bishop until his death on 31 July 1991.
References
External links
* http://www.catholic-hierarchy.org/bishop/bchedidj.html
* https://web.archive.org/web/20170702013321/http://www.apostolische-nachfolge.de/asien2.htm
1914 births
1991 deaths
Lebanese Roman Catholic bishops
Eastern Catholic bishops in Brazil
Lebanese emigrants to Brazil
Lebanese Maronites
20th-century Maronite Catholic bishops
20th-century Roman Catholic archbishops in Brazil
Brazilian Maronites
Bishops appointed by Pope Pius XII
Bishops appointed by Pope Paul VI
Bishops appointed by Pope John Paul II
Participants in the Second Vatican Council
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