Joseph Jules Zerey
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| caption = Melkite Catholic Patriarch Gregory III Laham with Archbishop Jules Joseph Zerey
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| predecessor = Georges Michel Bakar
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| successor = Yasser Ayyash
| other_post = Titular Archbishop of Damiata dei Greco-Melkiti
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Joseph Jules Zerey (born 9 June 1941 in Alexandria, Egypt) is a retired archbishop of the Melkite Greek Catholic Church and former Apostolic Vicar of Jerusalem.{{Catholic-hierarchy|bishop|bzerey|Archbishop Joseph Jules Zerey|21 January 2015}}
Career
Zerey was ordained a priest on 5 May 1967 and started Working at the Patriarchal College School in Cairo in 1967. In 1972 he was appointed as director of the Patriarchal College School in Heliopolis. He was a patron of the Church of St. Joseph in Al Zaytoon-Cairo from 1985 to 2001, and president of the second-degree spiritual Court.
On 22 June 2001 he was appointed titular Archbishop of Damietta and Auxiliary Bishop of Antioch. He was consecrated bishop on 9 November 2001 by Patriarch Gregory III Laham, assisted by co-consecrators Archbishops Elias Zoghby and Paul Antaki. On 22 June 2001 Zerey was appointed Patriarchal Vicar of Alexandria and Synkellos for the Melkite Church in Egypt and Sudan.
On 4 June 2008 Zerey was appointed Vicar Apostolic of Jerusalem. During 2010 Zerey was a participant in the Synod of Bishops for the Middle East in Rome. At the synod he published an intervention discussing the need to re-evangelize Christians living in the Holy Land and announcing the creation of a new international center for family spirituality in Nazareth.{{cite web|url=http://storico.radiovaticana.va/en1/storico/2010-10/430018_intervention_of_mons_joseph_jules_zerey_titular_archbishop_of_damiata_of_the_greek_melkites_auxiliary_and_protosyncellus_of_the_patriarcha.html|title=Intervention of Mons. Joseph Jules ZEREY, Titular Archbishop of Damiata of the Greek-Melkites, Auxiliary and Protosyncellus of the Patriarchate of Antioch of the Greek-Melkites (JERUSALEM)|website=storico.radiovaticana.va|publisher=Vatican Radio|accessdate=20 December 2012|url-status=dead|archiveurl=https://archive.today/20130421212047/http://storico.radiovaticana.va/en1/storico/2010-10/430018_intervention_of_mons_joseph_jules_zerey_titular_archbishop_of_damiata_of_the_greek_melkites_auxiliary_and_protosyncellus_of_the_patriarcha.html|archivedate=21 April 2013}}
On February 9, 2018, Zerey was replaced as Patriarchal Vicar of Jerusalem by the Melkite Synod, due to his age. He was succeeded by Archbishop Yasser Ayyash. {{cite web|url=https://www.la-croix.com/Urbi-et-Orbi/Actualite/Carnet/Mgr-Joseph-Ayyash-nouvel-eveque-melkite-Jerusalem-2018-02-13-1200913541|title=Mgr Joseph Ayyash nouvel eveque melkite Jerusalem |website=la-croix.com|publisher=La Croix|accessdate=20 February 2018}}
Distinctions
Gallery
File:BISHOP jules joseph zerey.JPG|Archbishop Zerey in Caravaggio, Italy, September 2008.
Notes
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External links
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- [https://archive.today/20130414210358/http://www.gcpjer.org/FR/Vicaire.htm Monseigneur Joseph-Jules Zerey: Curriculum Vitae]
- [http://todayquestions.blogspot.com/2010/08/jospeh-jules-zerey-on-faith.html Joseph Jules Zerey on Faith]
- [http://www.gcatholic.org/dioceses/diocese/jeru2.htm Gcatholic]
- [https://web.archive.org/web/20190119044736/http://www.apostolische-nachfolge.de/afrika.htm Apostolische Afrika]
- [http://www.pgc-lb.org/eng/melkite_greek_catholic_church/the-Hierarchy Melkite Greek Catholic Church. Hierarchy]
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Category:Melkite Greek Catholic bishops
Category:Members of the Patriarchal Order of the Holy Cross of Jerusalem
Category:Egyptian Christian clergy
Category:Egyptian Melkite Greek Catholics
Category:People from Alexandria