Saba Youakim, BS (born on 2 June 1914 in El Wardieh in Baalbek, Lebanon – died on 6 March 2003) was Archbishop of the

Melkite Greek Catholic Archeparchy of Petra and Philadelphia in Amman Melkite Greek Catholic Archeparchy of Petra and Philadelphia in Amman (Latin: Archeparchy Petrensis et Philadelphiensis) is a branch of the Melkite Greek Catholic Church immediately subject to the Patriarchate of Antioch of the Melkites. In 2007 t ...

Life

Saba Youakim was ordained to the priesthood on November 30, 1939, to be chaplain of the Ordo Basilianus Sanctissimi Salvatoris Melkitarum (BS). He was appointed Archimandrite in 1968 and

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of his religious community. On September 9, 1968, he was appointed Titular Archbishop of Scythopolis and consecrated on September 29, 1968. His episcopal ordination was celebrated by the Patriarch of Antioch

Maximos V Hakim Maximos V Hakim (; May 18, 1908 – June 29, 2001) was elected Patriarch of Antioch and All the East, and Alexandria and Jerusalem of the Melkite Greek Catholic Church in 1967 and served until 2000. He guided the church through turbulent changes ...

, with co-consecrators served the archbishops

Eftimios Youakim Eftimios Youakim, BS, (15 June 1886 in Qaytuleh – 19 May 1972) was an archbishop of the Melkite Greek Catholic Archeparchy of Zahle and Forzol in Lebanon. Life On 25 March 1912 Youakim was ordained priest and appointed chaplain of the Melkite ...

, BS of Zahle and Furzol and

Nicolas Hajj Nicolas Hajj, BS (born on 30 June 1907 in Machgara, Lebanon - died on 12 January 1995) was a Melkite Greek Catholic Archbishop of the Melkite Greek Catholic Archeparchy of Baniyas. Life Nicolas Hajj was ordained to the priesthood on April 1, 1934 ...

, SDS, of Banyas . On October 15, 1970, Youakim was elected by the Synod as Archbishop of Petra and Philadelphia in

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and was the successor of the Archbishop

Mikhayl Assaf Mikhayl Assaf (27 October 1887 in Damascus, Syria – 10 August 1970) was the second archbishop of the Melkite Greek Catholic Church of the Melkite Greek Catholic Archeparchy of Petra and Philadelphia in Amman. He was the successor to Archbishop ...

. On August 24, 1992, he resigned for reasons of age, and until his death on March 6, 2003, was Emeritus Archbishop. He was succeeded by Archbishop

Georges El-Murr Georges El-Murr, BC (11 October 1930 in Ka'a at Baalbek, Lebanon – 8 February 2017) was Archbishop of the Melkite Greek Catholic Archeparchy of Petra and Philadelphia in Amman. Life Georges El-Murr was ordained a priest of the Order of St. J ...

. During his tenure, Youakim participated in the

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. He ordinated

Issam John Darwich Issam John Darwich, BS, (born 4 May 1945, Damascus, Syria) was Archbishop of the Melkite Greek Catholic Archeparchy of Zahle and Forzol in Lebanon from 2011 to 2021. Life and education Issam Darwich, whose his baptismal name is John, was born in Da ...

and

Anargyros Printezis Anargyros Printezis (; 9 September 1937 – 18 March 2012), was the titular bishop of Gratianopolis and Apostolic Exarch of the Byzantine Rite Catholics in Greece. Anargyros Printezis was born in , Syros island, Greece in August 1937, and was orda ...

to the episcopate. Youakim was also co-consecrator of Archbishop Michel Hakim of Saint-Sauveur de Montréal, Archbishop

François Abou Mokh François Abou Mokh, BS (born on 1 July 1921 in Ma'loula, Syria - died on 11 August 2006) was a Curial Bishop in the Melkite Patriarchate of Antioch in Syria. Ecclesiastical biography François Abou Mokh was ordained to the priesthood on 12 July ...

, BS, Auxiliary Bishop in Antioch, Bishop

Ercole Lupinacci Ercole Lupinacci (23 November 1933 – 6 August 2016) was an Italian of Arbëreshë people, Arbëreshë ethnicity and Bishop (Catholic Church), Bishop of Italo-Albanian Catholic Church, Italo-Albanian Catholic Eparchy, Eparchies of Eparchy of P ...

of Lungro], and future Melkite Patriarch of Antioch,

Gregory III Laham Gregory III Laham, B.S. (; ; born Lutfy Laham, December 15, 1933, in Darayya, Syria), Emeritus Patriarch of Antioch and All the East, of Alexandria and Jerusalem, is the former spiritual leader of the Melkite Greek Catholic Church. He was elec ...

, BS, and Archbishop Andre Haddad, BS, of Zahle and Furzol.

References

External links

* http://www.catholic-hierarchy.org/bishop/byouakim.html * http://christian-orient.eu/beitrage/die-katholischen-kirchen-byzantinischer-tradition/ * http://library.stu.edu/ulma/va/3005/1968/10-11-1968.pdf {{DEFAULTSORT:Youakim, Saba 1914 births 2003 deaths Lebanese Melkite Greek Catholics Melkite Greek Catholic bishops People from Baalbek District Participants in the Second Vatican Council