Antoine Hamid Mourany
Antoine Hamid Mourany[1] (in Arabic:أنطوان حميد موراني, born on January 24, 1930 in Al Qoubaiyat, Lebanon - died on April 16, 2012) was an archbishop of the Maronite Catholic Archeparchy of Damascus.
Life
Ordained priest on 11 June 1960, Mourany was appointed bishop on 5 June 1989 by Pope John Paul II to the Archeparchy of Damascus. Maronite Patriarch of Antioch, Nasrallah Boutros Sfeir, gave him his episcopal ordination on September 16 of the same year, and his co-consecrators were Joseph Merhi, CML, Eparch of Cairo, and Georges Abi-Saber, OLM, auxiliary bishop in Antioch.
On 10 March 1999 Mourany resigned from his duties as archeparch.
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External links
- http://www.catholic-hierarchy.org/bishop/bmourany.html Antoine Hamid Mourany
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