Jean Assaad Haddad

Jean Assaad Haddad (17 December 1926 – 22 January 2021) was a Lebanese Melkite hierarch, who served as an archbishop of the Melkite Greek Catholic Archeparchy of Tyre in Lebanon.{{Cite web|url=http://www.gcatholic.org/dioceses/diocese/tyrz0.htm|title=Archeparchy of Tyr, Lebanon (Greek-Melkite Rite)}}

Life

Haddad was born in December 1926 in Beit Chabab, Lebanon. On 2 July 1950, he received his priestly ordination. On 26 October 1988 he became successor to Archbishop Georges Haddad as Archbishop of Tyre. The Patriarch of Antioch Maximos V Hakim consecrated him bishop on 27 November 1988,{{Cite web |url=http://www.apostolische-nachfolge.de/asien2.htm |title=Asien2 |access-date=2015-02-23 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190420175825/http://www.apostolische-nachfolge.de/asien2.htm |archive-date=2019-04-20 |url-status=dead }} and his co-consecrators were the Archbishops Grégoire Haddad as Titular Archbishop of Adana of Greek Melkites and Habib Bacha, SMSP of Beirut and Byblos.

In 2000, Haddad from 6 June to 29 November became apostolic administrator "sede plena" of the Melkite Patriarchate of Antioch. On 20 June 2005 he became emeritus bishop due to age-related reasons, and was succeeded by Georges Bacouni, whom he co-consecrated. He also served as co-consecrator of the Archbishops Boutros Mouallem, MSP of São Paulo in Brazil and Joseph Kallas of Beirut and Byblos.

References

External links

http://www.catholic-hierarchy.org/bishop/bhaddadja.html

Category:1926 births

Category:2021 deaths

Category:Lebanese Melkite Greek Catholics

Category:Melkite Greek Catholic bishops

Category:People from Matn District