Nasrallah Boutros Sfeir | |
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Cardinal Patriarch emeritus of Antioch | |
Native name | Arabic: نصرالله بطرس صفير |
See | Antioch and the Whole East |
Appointed | 7 May 1986 |
Term ended | 26 February 2011 |
Predecessor | Anthony Peter Khoraish |
Successor | Bechara Boutros al-Rahi |
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Ordination | 7 May 1950 |
Consecration | 16 July 1961 by Paul Peter Meouchi |
Created cardinal | 26 November 1994 by Pope John Paul II |
Rank | Cardinal-Bishop Patriarch |
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Died | 12 May 2019 Achrafieh, Beirut, Lebanon | (aged 98)
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Nasrallah Boutros Sfeir (Moran Mor Naṣrallah Buṭrus Ṣufayr; Arabic: الكاردينال مار نصر الله بطرس صفير; Latin: Victor Petrus Sfeir; 15 May 1920 – 12 May 2019)[1] was the patriarch of Lebanon's largest Christian body, the Maronite Church, an Eastern Catholic Church in communion with the Holy See. He was also given the honorific title of cardinal. He was elected Patriarch of Antioch for the Maronites on 27 April 1986, and his resignation was accepted on 26 February 2011. He was the 76th patriarch of the Maronite Church, with the official title of "His Beatitude the 76th Patriarch of Antioch and the Whole Levant".