Joseph Mohsen Béchara

Joseph Mohsen Béchara (born on 19 March 1935 in Arbet Kozhaya, Lebanon) is a retired Maronite archbishop of the Maronite Catholic Archeparchy of Cyprus and the Maronite Catholic Archeparchy of Antelias.

Joseph Mohsen Béchara received on 19 April 1963 the sacrament of ordination to the priesthood. On 4 April 1986 he was appointed by Pope John Paul II Archbishop of Archeparchy of Cyprus with headquarters in Nicosia. His episcopal ordination was on 18 May 1986 by the hands of the Maronite Patriarch of Antioch, Nasrallah Boutros Sfeir and his co-consecrators were the Archeparch of Jounieh, Chucrallah Harb, and the Auxiliary bishop of Antioch, Roland Aboujaoudé. On 11 June 1988 Béchara became the first Maronite Archbishop appointed to the Maronite Catholic Archeparchy of Antelias.

On 16 June 2012 Joseph Mohsen Béchara resigned for reasons of age of the Archbishopric of Antelias.