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Seniority by Bishop Ordination


Ordained
Bishop
YearsNameCurrent Title
Most Senior
27 Nov 198143.56 Patriarch Grégoire III (Loutfi) Laham, B.S.Patriarch Emeritus of Antiochia {Antioch} (Melkite Greek), Syria
6 Jan 198243.45 Bishop Salim SayeghAuxiliary Bishop Emeritus of Jerusalem {Gerusalemme}
6 Jan 198837.45 Patriarch Michel SabbahPatriarch Emeritus of Jerusalem {Gerusalemme}
26 Apr 199233.14 Archbishop Antonio FrancoApostolic Nuncio
22 Jul 199232.90 Patriarch Fouad Boutros TwalPatriarch Emeritus of Jerusalem {Gerusalemme}
3 Jul 199331.96 Bishop Kamal Hanna BathishAuxiliary Bishop Emeritus of Jerusalem {Gerusalemme}
3 Jul 199331.96 Bishop Giacinto-Boulos MarcuzzoAuxiliary Bishop Emeritus of Jerusalem {Gerusalemme}
7 Oct 199430.69 Archbishop Giuseppe LazzarottoApostolic Nuncio
5 Oct 199628.70 Archbishop Paul Nabil El-SayahCurial Bishop Emeritus of Antiochia {Antioch} (Maronite), Lebanon
9 Nov 200123.61 Archbishop Joseph Jules ZereyProtosyncellus Emeritus of Jerusalem {Gerusalemme} (Melkite Greek)
6 Jan 200223.45 Archbishop Adolfo Tito Camacho YllanaApostolic Nuncio to Israel
7 Apr 200223.19 Archbishop Kévork (Georges) Khazoumian, I.C.P.B.Coadjutor Archbishop Emeritus of Istanbul (Armenian), Turkey
Most Junior
28 Feb 20250.30 Bishop Iyad Akram TwalAuxiliary Bishop of Jerusalem {Gerusalemme}
21 Sep 20240.74 Archbishop Kévork Noradounguian, I.C.P.B.Ordinary of Eastern Europe {Europa Orientale} (Armenian)
16 Mar 20241.25 Bishop Bruno Varriano, O.F.M.Auxiliary Bishop of Jerusalem {Gerusalemme}
27 Aug 20231.81 Archbishop Nersès (Joseph) Zabarian (Zabbara)Archbishop of Baghdad (Armenian), Iraq
6 May 20223.11 Bishop Jamal Boulos Sleiman DaibesBishop of Djibouti
30 Apr 20223.13 Bishop Rafic NahraAuxiliary Bishop of Jerusalem {Gerusalemme}
15 Aug 20204.84 Bishop Yaacoub Camil Afram Antoine SemaanPatriarchal Exarch of Jerusalem {Gerusalemme} (Palestine and Jordan) (Syrian)
10 Sep 20168.77 Pierbattista Cardinal Pizzaballa, O.F.M.Patriarch of Jerusalem {Gerusalemme}
16 Mar 201312.25 Archbishop Ilario AntoniazziArchbishop Emeritus of Tunis, Tunisia
28 Jul 201212.89 Archbishop Moussa El-Hage, O.A.M.Archbishop of Haifa and the Holy Land {Haifa e Terra Santa} (Maronite), Israel
16 Jul 201113.92 Patriarch Raphaël Bedros XXI Minassian, I.C.P.B.Patriarch of Cilicia (Armenian), Lebanon
27 May 201015.06 Bishop William Hanna ShomaliAuxiliary Bishop of Jerusalem {Gerusalemme}

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