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,

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. He was ordained priest on 25 April 1959. On 12 July 1975, Aboujaoudé was appointed patriarchal vicar of Antioch and

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of Arca in Phoenicia dei Maroniti. He was ordained bishop on 23 August 1975 by the hands of the Maronite Patriarch of Antioch Cardinal

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and his co-consecrators were Elie Farah, Archeparch of Cyprus and Joseph Merhi, MLM, Eparch of Cairo. On 1985 Aboujaoudé was appointed

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of Antioch till 1988 when he was appointed auxiliary bishop of Antioch. Since 1997 he had been a Curial Bishop and

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of the Maronite Patriarch. On 6 June 2011, he presented his resignation from the post of auxiliary bishop and it was accepted by

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Co-consecrator bishop

Roland Aboujaoudé was co-consecrator in episcopal ordinations of following bishops: * Paul Fouad Tabet,

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" of Sinna (Apostolic Nuncio) *

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, Eparch of Montréal * Khalil Abi-Nader, Archeparch of Beirut * Joseph Mohsen Béchara, Archeparch of Cyprus *

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of Tarsus dei Maroniti and auxiliary bishop of Antioch * Antoine Torbey, Eparch of Latakia *

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of Apamea in Syria dei Maroniti as auxiliary bishop in Antioch * Bechara Boutros al-Rahi, OMM, Titular Bishop of Caesarea Philippi and auxiliary bishop of Antioch *

Philippe Boutros Chebaya Philippe Boutros Chebaya (May 20, 1920, in Bsharri, Lebanon – 8 October 2002) was the first Maronite bishop in 1990 of the newly established Maronite Catholic Eparchy of Baalbek-Deir El Ahmar in Lebanon. Life On March 25, 1944, Philippe Boutros ...

, Eparch of Baalbek *

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, Archeparch of Aleppo *

Guy-Paul Noujaim Guy-Paul Noujaim (born 7 July 1935 in Kfartay, Lebanon) is a Lebanese eparch and emeritus Auxiliary bishop of the Maronite Catholic Eparchy of Joubbé, Sarba and Jounieh. Life Guy-Paul Noujaim received on 11 June 1967 his priestly ordination. Pope ...

of Caesarea Philippi and auxiliary bishop of Antioch *

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, OLM, Eparch of São Paulo *

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, CML, Eparch of Buenos Aires *

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of Aradus and auxiliary bishop of Antioch *

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of Tarsus dei Maroniti and auxiliary bishop of Antioch * Maroun Khoury Sader, Archeparch of Tyre *

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, Archeparch of Tripoli *

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of Chonochora and auxiliary bishop of Antioch *

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, Eparch of Baalbek *

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, Eparch of Mexico * Paul Nabil El-Sayah, Archeparch of Haifa and the Holy Land *

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, Eparch of Sidon * Youhanna Fouad El-Hage, Archeparch of Tripoli * Robert Joseph Shaheen, Eparch of Los Angeles * Massoud Massoud, Eparch of Latakia *

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, Eparch of Sydney *

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, Eparch of Zahle *

Georges Saad Abi Younes Georges M. Saad Abi Younes, OLM (born 18 April 1948 in Hammana, Lebanon) is the current eparch of the Maronite Catholic Eparchy of Our Lady of the Martyrs of Lebanon in Mexico. Life Georges Abi Younes joined in 1967 to the Lebanese Maronite Orde ...

, OLM, Eparch of Mexico * Chucrallah-Nabil El-Hage, Archeparch of Tyre *

Gregory John Mansour Gregory John Mansour (born November 11, 1955, in Flint, Michigan) is an American Maronite prelate, who has served as the eparch (bishop) of the Maronite Eparchy of Saint Maron of Brooklyn, a diocese based in Brooklyn, New York, covering the Ma ...

, Eparch of Brooklyn * Georges Bou-Jaoudé, CM, Archeparch of Tripoli *

Simon Atallah Simon Atallah, OAM (born on 10 January 1937 in Hemayri, Lebanon) is a Lebanese Maronite emeritus eparch of the Maronite Catholic Eparchy of Baalbek-Deir El Ahmar. Life Simon Atallah joined the OAM and received on 8 December 1963 his ordination t ...

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, Eparch of Baalbek *

François Eid François Eid, OMM (born on 24 July 1943 in Mtolleh, Chouf District, Lebanon) is a retired Maronite Bishop of the Maronite Catholic Eparchy of Cairo and Procurator of the Maronite Patriarch at the Holy See. Life François Eid joined the OMM of t ...

, OMM, Eparch of Cairo *

Elias Nassar Elias Nassar (born 25 October 1960) is the retired eparch of the Maronite Catholic Eparchy of Sidon. Life Elias Nassar was born in Sarba, Lebanon. He was ordained priest on 18 August 1990 by Eparchy of Sidon. The Synod of the Maronite Church el ...

, Eparch of Sidon

References

External links

* http://www.catholic-hierarchy.org/bishop/babouj.html {{DEFAULTSORT:Aboujaoude, Roland 1930 births 2019 deaths Lebanese clergy 20th-century Maronite Catholic bishops 21st-century Maronite Catholic bishops