Archdiocese of Tyr, Lebanon (Maronite Rite)

Continent: Central and Southwest Asia

Rite: Maronite (Antiochian)

Type: Archdiocese

Name: Tyr (français) / Tyre (English) / Tiro (Italiano) / Tyren(sis) Maronitarum (Latin)

Immediately Subject to the Patriarch

Depends on: Dicastery for the Eastern Churches

History

1600: Established as Diocese of Tyr (français) / Tyre (English) / Tiro (Italiano) / Tyren(sis) Maronitarum (Latin) (without ecclesiastical province)
1736: Renamed as Diocese of Tyr and Saïdā (English) / Tyr et Sidon (français) / Tiro e Sidone (Italiano) / Tyren(sis) et Sidonien(sis) Maronitarum (Latin) (gained territory from the suppressed Diocese of Saïdā)
1900.01.26: Renamed as Diocese of Tyr (français) / Tyre (English) / Tiro (Italiano) / Tyren(sis) Maronitarum (Latin) (lost territory to establish Diocese of Saïdā)
1965: Promoted as Archdiocese of Tyr (français) / Tyre (English) / Tiro (Italiano) / Tyren(sis) Maronitarum (Latin)
1996.06.08: Lost territory to establish Archdiocese of Haifa and Holy Land

Present Prelates

Archbishop (2020.11.01 – ...):

Archbishop Charbel Abdallah (56)

Ordinaries

Archbishops of Tyr (Maronite Rite)

Archbishop Charbel Abdallah (56)
(2020.11.01 – ...)

Archbishop of Tyr of the Maronites (Lebanon)

Born:	1967.02.17 (Hajjeh, Lebanon)
Ordained Priest:	1992.10.24
Consecrated Bishop:	2020.12.05

Priest of Tyr of the Maronites (Lebanon) (1992.10.24 – 2020.11.01)

Archbishop of Tyr of the Maronites (Lebanon) (2020.11.01 – ...)

Archbishop Chucrallah-Nabil El-Hage (80)
(2003.09.25 – 2020.11.01)

Archbishop emeritus of Tyr of the Maronites (Lebanon)

Born:	1943.02.26 (Hajjé, Lebanon)
Ordained Priest:	1970.06.13
Consecrated Bishop:	2003.11.29

Priest of Tyr of the Maronites (Lebanon) (1970.06.13 – 2003.09.25)

Archbishop of Tyr of the Maronites (Lebanon) ([2003.06] 2003.09.25 – 2020.11.01)

Archbishop Maroun Khoury Sader
(1992.06.01 – 2003.09.25)

Born:	1926.12.25 (Lebanon)
Ordained Priest:	1952.05.11
Consecrated Bishop:	1992.07.18
Died:	2015.08.26 († 88)

Archbishop of Tyr of the Maronites (Lebanon) (1992.06.01 – 2003.09.25)

Archbishop Joseph Khoury
(1965 – 1992.02.05)

Born:	1919.10.24
Ordained Priest:	1942.12.20
Consecrated Bishop:	1956.06.29
Died:	1992.02.05 († 72)

Titular Bishop of Ptolemais in Phœnicia of the Maronites (1956.04.21 – 1959.12.11)

Bishop of Tyr of the Maronites (Lebanon) (1959.12.11 – 1965)

Archbishop of Tyr of the Maronites (Lebanon) (1965 – 1992.02.05)

Bishops of Tyr (Maronite Rite)

Bishop Joseph Khoury (later Archbishop)
(1959.12.11 – 1965)

(see above)

Bishop Michael Doumith
(1956.04.21 – 1959.12.11)

Born:	1915.07.20
Ordained Priest:	1940.03.10
Consecrated Bishop:	1956.06.29
Died:	1989.02.25 († 73)

Bishop of Tyr of the Maronites (Lebanon) (1956.04.21 – 1959.12.11)

Bishop of Sarba of the Maronites (Lebanon) (1959.12.11 – 1989.02.25)

Bishop Paul Méouchi (later Cardinal)
(1934.04.29 – 1955.05.25)

Gloria libani data est ei

Born:	1894.04.01 (Djezzine, Lebanon)
Ordained Priest:	1917.12.17
Consecrated Bishop:	1934.12.08
Created Cardinal:	1965.02.22
Died:	1975.01.11 (Beirut, Lebanon † 80)

Bishop of Tyr of the Maronites (Lebanon) (1934.04.29 – 1955.05.25)

Patriarch of Antioch of the Maronites (Lebanon) (1955.05.25 – 1975.01.11)

Cardinal-Patriarch (1965.02.22 – 1975.01.11)

President of Synod of the Maronite Church (1969 – 1975.01.11)

President of Assembly of the Catholic Patriarchs and Bishops of Lebanon (1970 – 1975.01.11)

Bishop Checrallah Khouri, L.M.
(1906.01.31 – 1934.02.11)

Born:	1865.02.15 (Lebanon)
Ordained Priest:	1886.12.08
Consecrated Bishop:	1906.04.14
Died:	1934.02.11 († 68)

Bishop of Tyr of the Maronites (Lebanon) (1906.01.31 – 1934.02.11)

Bishop Paul Basbous
(1900.02.18 – 1906.01.29)

Born:	1846.03.01
Consecrated Bishop:	1900.09.25
Died:	1919 († 73)

Bishop of Tyr of the Maronites (Lebanon) (1900.02.18 – 1906.01.29)

Bishop of Saïdā of the Maronites (Lebanon) (1900.02.18 – 1919)

Bishops of Tyr and Saïdā (Maronite Rite)

Bishop Pierre Bostani
(1866.10.05 – 1899.11.15)

Died:

1899.11.15

Bishop of Tyr and Saïdā of the Maronites (Lebanon) (1866.10.05 – 1899.11.15)

Bishop Abdallah Bostani
(1838 – 1866)

Died:

1866

Bishop of Tyr and Saïdā of the Maronites (Lebanon) (1838 – 1866)

Archbishop Mikhail Fadel (later Patriarch)
(1762 – 1786)

Born:	1710 (Lebanon)
Ordained Priest:	1731
Consecrated Bishop:	1762
Died:	1795.05.17 († 84)

Bishop of Tyr and Saïdā of the Maronites (Lebanon) (1762 – 1786)

Archbishop of Beirut of the Maronites (Lebanon) ([1779] 1786 – 1793.09.20)

Patriarch of Antioch of the Maronites (Lebanon) (1793.09.20 – 1795.05.17)

Bishop Ignazio
(1736? – 1746?)

Bishop of Tyr and Saïdā of the Maronites (Lebanon) (1736? – 1746?)

Maronite Archdiocese of

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