Cyril Salim Bustros

Archbishop Cyril Salim Bustros
Church	Melkite Greek Catholic
See	Beirut and Byblos
In office	June, 2011 —
Orders
Ordination	June 29, 1962
Consecration	November 27, 1988
Personal details
Born	January 26, 1939 Ain-Borday, Lebanon
Occupation	Professor
Previous post	Archbishop of Baalbeck, Eparch of Newton

Cyril Salim Bustros (born January 26, 1939) is the archbishop of the Melkite Greek Catholic Archeparchy of Beirut and Byblos and a former Professor at Saint Joseph University in Beirut. A native of Lebanon, he formerly served as archbishop of Baalbeck and later as eparch for the Melkite Church in the United States.

Archbishop Cyril was born at Ain-Borday, near Baalbek, Lebanon on January 26, 1939. He is a member of the Bustros family, a prominent clan in Lebanese society.

After his primary and secondary studies at the Minor Seminary of St. Paul at Harissa, he pursued his philosophical studies at St. Paul Institute in 1956 and 1957, and made his novitiate at the White Fathers in Gap, France. He then studied theology for four years (1958–1962) at the Major Seminary at St. Anne of Jerusalem.

He was ordained to the priesthood in the Society of the Missionaries of Saint Paul on June 29, 1962.

From 1962 to 1970, he was Professor of Classical Greek and of French Literature at the Minor Seminary. Then from 1972-1974 Professor of Philosophy and Theology at St. Paul Institute in Harissa.

Interrupting his teaching, he pursued a Doctorate of Theology at the Catholic University of Louvain in Belgium, and received his degree in 1976. Bustros then served for eleven years as director of the St. Paul Institute of Philosophy and Theology at the Paulist Missionaries at Harissa. During this period he also held an appointment as Professor at Saint Joseph University in Beirut.

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