Abraham Nehmé

Abraham Nehmé, BC or Ibrahim Naameh (born 8 October 1927 in Kaïtouly, Syria) was Archbishop of the Melkite Greek Catholic Archeparchy of Homs in Syria.

Abraham was ordained to the priesthood on 3 January 1954 and became Chaplain of the Saint John the Baptist Basilians of St. John consecrated. The Bishops' Conference of the Melkite Greek Catholic Church appointed him on 20 August 1986 successor of Denys Gaith as Archbishop of Homs. The Patriarch of Antioch Maximos V Hakim ordained him bishop on October 26, 1986. As co-consecrators assisted the Patriarch Hakim the Archbishops Habib Bacha, SMSP and André Haddad, BS. During his tenure Nehmé was co-consecrator of the archbishops Antoine Hayek, BC, Georges El-Murr, BC and Bishop Jean-Abdo Arbach, BC. In 2006 Archbishop Nehmé after his retirement became emeritus archbishop, and was succeeded by Isidore Battikha.

In 2001 Nehmé declared in an interview, "that the priests had four to nine children in his diocese on average and therefore were not less zealous in its missionary and apostolic work than their unmarried brothers". In another line of thought, he raises the question of whether the "success could not inspire the West with the married Catholic priests in the Orient?" And he gives an answer to this question: "But this development will not proceed stormy, may we have waiting for a third Vatican Council."

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