Yousif Benham Habash
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His Grace, The Most Reverend Yousif Behnam Habash |
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| Eparch of Newark | |
| Church | Syriac Catholic Church |
| Diocese | Eparchy of Our Lady of Deliverance of Newark |
| Appointed | April 12, 2010 |
| Installed | July 31, 2010 |
| Predecessor | Ephrem Joseph Yonan |
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| Ordination | August 31, 1975 by Cyrille Emmanuel Benni |
| Consecration | July 11, 2010 by Ephrem Joseph Yonan, Jules Mikhael Al-Jamil, Denys Raboula Antoine Beylouni, Basile Georges Casmoussa and Athanase Matti Shaba Matoka |
| Personal details | |
| Born | June 1, 1951 Bakhdida, Iraq |
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Styles of Yousif Behnam Habash |
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| Spoken style | His Grace |
| Religious style | Eparch |
Yousif Behnam Habash (in Arabic يوسف بهنام حبش) (born June 1, 1951) is an Iraqi-born bishop of the Syriac Catholic Church. Since 2010, he has been the Eparch of Our Lady of Deliverance of Newark.
Born June 1, 1951 in Bakhdida, Iraq, Yousif Behnam Habash entered St. John’s Seminary in Mosul in 1965 at the age of 14. From 1970 to 1972 he performed military service in Iraq. Thereafter, when the Mosul seminary closed, he completed his seminary studies at Charfet , Lebanon, studying at the Université Saint-Esprit de Kaslik.
Habash was ordained a priest for the Archeparchy of Mosul on 31 August 1975 after which time he was assigned to a parish in his home town of Bakhdida and worked in youth ministry. He later served as vicar and then pastor of Sacred Heart Parish, in Basra.
In 1994, he was assigned to the Syriac Catholic Mission of North America, serving first in Newark, New Jersey and, from 2001 on, at the Church of the Sacred Heart of Jesus in West Hollywood, California.
In April 2010, he was appointed by Pope Benedict XVI as the second eparch of the Syrian Catholic Eparchy of Our Lady of Deliverance of Newark. He was consecrated a bishop on 11 July 2010 by his predecessor Ephrem Joseph Younan, who had been elected Patriarch of Antioch and all the East of the Syrians.
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