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Palestine

Oldest and Youngest Bishops


BirthdateAgeNameCurrent Title
Oldest
19 Mar 1933 Patriarch Michel SabbahPatriarch Emeritus of Jerusalem {Gerusalemme}
15 Dec 1933 Patriarch Grégoire III (Loutfi) Laham, B.S.Patriarch Emeritus of Antiochia {Antioch} (Melkite Greek), Syria
10 Mar 1935 Archbishop Kévork (Georges) Khazoumian, I.C.P.B.Coadjutor Archbishop Emeritus of Istanbul (Armenian), Turkey
15 Mar 1935 Bishop Salim SayeghAuxiliary Bishop Emeritus of Jerusalem {Gerusalemme}
24 Mar 1937 Archbishop Antonio FrancoApostolic Nuncio
12 Dec 1939 Bishop Grégoire Pierre MelkiPatriarchal Exarch Emeritus of Jerusalem {Gerusalemme} (Palestine and Jordan) (Syrian)
26 Dec 1939 Archbishop Paul Nabil El-SayahCurial Bishop Emeritus of Antiochia {Antioch} (Maronite), Lebanon
23 Oct 1940 Patriarch Fouad Boutros TwalPatriarch Emeritus of Jerusalem {Gerusalemme}
24 May 1942 Archbishop Giuseppe LazzarottoApostolic Nuncio
24 Apr 1945 Bishop Giacinto-Boulos MarcuzzoAuxiliary Bishop Emeritus of Jerusalem {Gerusalemme}
20 Apr 1946 Archbishop Georges Michel Bakar, Ist. del PradoProtosyncellus Emeritus of Egypt, Sudan, and South Sudan (Melkite Greek)
24 Nov 1946 Patriarch Raphaël Bedros XXI Minassian, I.C.P.B.Patriarch of Cilicia (Armenian), Lebanon
Youngest
2 May 1980 Bishop Yaacoub Camil Afram Antoine SemaanPatriarchal Exarch of Jerusalem {Gerusalemme} (Palestine and Jordan) (Syrian)
15 Jul 1973 Bishop Iyad Akram TwalAuxiliary Bishop of Jerusalem {Gerusalemme}
25 Sep 1971 Bishop Bruno Varriano, O.F.M.Auxiliary Bishop of Jerusalem {Gerusalemme}
6 Jun 1969 Archbishop Nersès (Joseph) Zabarian (Zabbara)Archbishop of Baghdad (Armenian), Iraq
16 Nov 1968 Archbishop Kévork Noradounguian, I.C.P.B.Ordinary of Eastern Europe {Europa Orientale} (Armenian)
21 Apr 1965 Pierbattista Cardinal Pizzaballa, O.F.M.Patriarch of Jerusalem {Gerusalemme}
3 Jul 1964 Bishop Jamal Boulos Sleiman DaibesBishop of Djibouti
23 Mar 1960 Archbishop Giorgio LinguaApostolic Nuncio to Israel
27 Jan 1959 Bishop Rafic NahraAuxiliary Bishop of Jerusalem {Gerusalemme}
4 Dec 1955 Archbishop Yaser Rasmi Hanna Al-AyyashProtosyncellus of Jerusalem {Gerusalemme} (Melkite Greek)
19 Feb 1954 Archbishop Moussa El-Hage, O.A.M.Archbishop of Haifa and the Holy Land {Haifa e Terra Santa} (Maronite), Israel
17 Jun 1953 Bishop Kricor-Okosdinos (Augustin) CoussaBishop of Iskanderiya {Alexandria} (Armenian), Egypt

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