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

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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

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, with co-consecrators served the archbishops Eftimios Youakim, 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. 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. 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 ...

and Anargyros Printezis to the episcopate. Youakim was also co-consecrator of Archbishop Michel Hakim of Saint-Sauveur de Montréal, Archbishop François Abou Mokh, BS, Auxiliary Bishop in Antioch, Bishop

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of Lungro], and future Melkite Patriarch of Antioch,

Gregory III Laham Gregory III Laham, B.S. ( ar, غريغوريوس الثالث لحام; la, Gregorius III Lahamus; born Lutfy Laham, December 15, 1933, in Darayya, Syria), Emeritus Patriarch of Antioch and All the East, of Alexandria and Jerusalem, is the fo ...

, 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