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Syrian Catholic Church

Oldest and Youngest Bishops


BirthdateAgeNameCurrent Title
Oldest
20 Jun 1930 Archbishop Athanase Matti Shaba MatokaArchbishop Emeritus of Baghdad, Iraq
8 Aug 1930 Archbishop Denys Raboula Antoine BeylouniCurial Bishop Emeritus of Antiochia {Antioch}, Lebanon
10 Oct 1931 Bishop Flavien Joseph MelkiCurial Bishop Emeritus of Antiochia {Antioch}, Lebanon
1934 Father Yusuf SağPatriarchal Exarch Emeritus of Turkey
25 Oct 1938 Archbishop Basile Georges CasmoussaApostolic Visitor (Visitator)
12 Dec 1939 Bishop Grégoire Pierre MelkiPatriarchal Exarch Emeritus of Jerusalem {Gerusalemme} (Palestine and Jordan), Palestine
23 Nov 1943 Archbishop Youhanna Boutros MosheArchbishop Emeritus of Mossul, Iraq
15 Nov 1944 Patriarch Ignace Joseph III (Ephrem) YounanPatriarch of Antiochia {Antioch}, Lebanon
18 Nov 1945 Bishop Timoteo Hikmat BeylouniApostolic Exarch of Venezuela
19 Aug 1946 Archbishop Denys Antoine ChahdaArchbishop of Alep [Beroea, Halab], Syria
1 Jun 1951 Bishop Barnaba Yousif Benham HabashBishop of Our Lady of Deliverance in the United States
18 Jun 1951 Archbishop Ephrem Yousif Abba MansoorArchbishop of Baghdad, Iraq
Youngest
28 Dec 1982 Bishop Isaac Jules Peter Georges BoutrosCurial Bishop of Antiochia {Antioch}, Lebanon
10 Sep 1982 Archbishop Younan (Benedict Qusay Mubarak Abdullah) HanoArchbishop of Mossul, Iraq
2 May 1980 Bishop Yaacoub Camil Afram Antoine SemaanPatriarchal Exarch of Jerusalem {Gerusalemme} (Palestine and Jordan), Palestine
17 Jul 1979 Bishop Rami Flaviano Al-KabalanApostolic Visitor (Visitator)
28 Sep 1977 Bishop Ephrem Elie Joseph WardeBishop of Le Caire {Cairo}, Egypt
3 Jan 1975 Archbishop Atanasius Firas Mundher DardarPatriarchal Exarch of Bassorah e Golfo, Iraq
15 Apr 1969 Bishop Matthias Charles Georges MradCurial Bishop of Antiochia {Antioch}, Lebanon
21 Feb 1969 Bishop Paul Antoine NassifApostolic Exarch of Canada
28 Jun 1968 Archbishop Julian Yacoub MuradArchbishop of Homs (-Hama-Nabk), Syria
1 Jan 1965 Archbishop Nathanael Nizar Wadih SemaanArchbishop of Adiabene, Iraq
15 Aug 1959 Archbishop Yaqoub Joseph Abdel-Jalil ChamiArchbishop of Hassaké-Nisibi, Syria
26 Jun 1956 Archbishop Youhanna Jihad Mtanos BattahArchbishop of Damas, Syria

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