Anthony Peter Khoraish
|
His Beatitude Moran Mor Anthony III Peter Khoraish أنطونيوس الثالث بطرس خريش |
|
|---|---|
| Cardinal Patriarch of Antioch | |
At the White House in 1981
|
|
| Church | Maronite Church |
| See | Patriarch of Antioch |
| Elected | February 3, 1975 |
| Term ended | April 3, 1986 |
| Predecessor | Paul Peter Meouchi |
| Successor | Cardinal N. P. Sfeir |
| Orders | |
| Ordination | April 12, 1930 (Priest) |
| Consecration | October 15, 1950 (Bishop) by Anthony Peter Arida |
| Created Cardinal | February 2, 1983 by Pope John Paul II |
| Rank | Patriarch Cardinal-Bishop |
| Personal details | |
| Born |
September 20, 1907 Ain Ebel, Lebanon |
| Died | August 19, 1994 (aged 86) Beirut |
Patriarch Moran Mor Anthony III Peter Khoraish (September 20, 1907, Ain Ebel, Lebanon - died on August 19, 1994, Beirut, Lebanon), (or Antonios Boutros Khoraish, Antoine Pierre Khreich, Khraish, Khoraiche, Arabic: أنطونيوس الثالث بطرس خريش), was the 75th Maronite Patriarch of Antioch and the Whole Levant from 1975 until his resignation in 1986, and a cardinal of the Catholic Church. He died on August 19, 1994.
Patriarch Anthony Khoraish was born on September 20, 1907 in Ain Ebel, a small village in the Southern Lebanon. He was a distinguished student at the local primary school in the village, and his devoutness to his faith lead him at the age of 13 to Rome where he began his philosophical and theological studies at the Pontifical Urbaniana University. He received his doctorate in philosophy at the age of 16 and returned to Beirut, Lebanon where he continued his post-doctoral theological studies at the Université Saint-Joseph.
He was ordained as priest by Maronite Patriarch of Antioch, Anthony Peter Arida at the Cathedral of Tyre in South Lebanon on April 12, 1930 where he also taught at the local Catholic school. From 1930-1940, he was also a faculty member of Sagesse School in Beirut teaching philosophy and apologetics, patriarchal vicar of Palestine from 1936 to 1940 and president of the Maronite tribunal in the Holy Land. He was appointed vicar general of the archdiocese of Tyre of the Maronites, and served there from 1940-1950.
...
Wikipedia