Bishop Rafic Nahra

Auxiliary Bishop of Jerusalem {Gerusalemme}, Palestine

Titular Bishop of Verbe

Events

Date	Age	Event	Title
27 Jan 1959		Born
22 Sep 1991	32.6	Ordained Deacon	Deacon of Paris, France
27 Jun 1992	33.4	Ordained Priest	Priest of Paris, France
11 Mar 2022	63.1	Appointed	Auxiliary Bishop of Jerusalem {Gerusalemme}, Palestine
11 Mar 2022	63.1	Appointed	Titular Bishop of Verbe
30 Apr 2022	63.2	Ordained Bishop	Titular Bishop of Verbe

MicroData Summary
Rafic Nahra
Bishop Rafic Nahra
(born 27 Jan 1959)
Auxiliary Bishop of Jerusalem {Gerusalemme}

Event Place
Birth Place Ismailia, Egypt
Ordained Deacon Saint-Antoine des Quinze-Vingts, Church, Paris, Archdiocese of Paris, France
Ordained Priest Notre-Dame, Cathedral, Paris, Archdiocese of Paris, France
Ordained Bishop Annunciation, Basilica, Nazareth, Patriarchate of Jerusalem {Gerusalemme}

Please contact the Bishop through the Patriarchate of Jerusalem {Gerusalemme}.

a priest for years
a bishop for years

Ordained Deacon by:
Bishop André Armand Vingt-Trois
Titular Bishop of Thibilis
Ordained Priest by:
Aron Jean-Marie Cardinal Lustiger †
Archbishop of Paris
Principal Consecrator:
Patriarch Pierbattista Pizzaballa, O.F.M.
Patriarch of Jerusalem {Gerusalemme}
Principal Co-Consecrators:
Bishop William Hanna Shomali
Titular Bishop of Lydda
Bishop Thibault Verny
Titular Bishop of Lamzella

Episcopal Lineage / Apostolic Succession:

Patriarch Pierbattista Pizzaballa, O.F.M. (2016)
Patriarch of Jerusalem {Gerusalemme}
Leonardo Cardinal Sandri (1997)
Cardinal-Deacon of Santi Biagio e Carlo ai Catinari
Angelo Cardinal Sodano † (1978)
Cardinal-Bishop of Albano
Antonio Cardinal Samorè † (1950)
Cardinal-Bishop of Sabina e Poggio Mirteto
Clemente Cardinal Micara † (1920)
Cardinal-Bishop of Velletri
Pietro Cardinal Gasparri † (1898)
Cardinal-Priest of San Lorenzo in Lucina
François-Marie-Benjamin Cardinal Richard de la Vergne † (1872)
Archbishop of Paris
Archbishop Joseph Hippolyte Guibert, O.M.I. † (1842)
Archbishop of Paris
Bishop St. Eugène-Charles-Joseph de Mazenod, O.M.I. † (1832)
Bishop of Marseille
Carlo Cardinal Odescalchi, S.J. † (1823)
Cardinal-Priest of Santi XII Apostoli
Giulio Maria Cardinal della Somaglia † (1788)
Cardinal-Bishop of Ostia (e Velletri)
Hyacinthe-Sigismond (Jean-François) Cardinal Gerdil, B. † (1777)
Cardinal-Priest of Santa Cecilia
Marcantonio Cardinal Colonna (Jr.) † (1762)
Cardinal-Priest of Santa Maria della Pace
Pope Clement XIII (1743)
(Carlo della Torre Rezzonico †)
Pope Benedict XIV (1724)
(Prospero Lorenzo Lambertini †)
Pope Benedict XIII (1675)
(Pietro Francesco (Vincenzo Maria) Orsini de Gravina, O.P. †)
Paluzzo Cardinal Paluzzi Altieri Degli Albertoni † (1666)
Chamberlain (Camerlengo) of the Apostolic Chamber
Ulderico Cardinal Carpegna † (1630)
Cardinal-Priest of Santa Maria in Trastevere
Luigi Cardinal Caetani † (1622)
Cardinal-Priest of Santa Pudenziana
Ludovico Cardinal Ludovisi † (1621)
Archbishop of Bologna
Archbishop Galeazzo Sanvitale † (1604)
Archbishop Emeritus of Bari (-Canosa)
Girolamo Cardinal Bernerio, O.P. † (1586)
Cardinal-Bishop of Albano
Giulio Antonio Cardinal Santorio † (1566)
Cardinal-Priest of San Bartolomeo all’Isola
Scipione Cardinal Rebiba †
Titular Patriarch of Constantinople

Principal Co-Consecrator of:
Bishop Jamal Boulos Sleiman Daibes (2022)
Bishop Iyad Akram Twal (2025)

External Link(s):

WikiData: Q54936117

Source(s):

b: Bollettino, 11 Mar 2022
c1: CB, 11 Mar 2022
od/c0: AJ, 15 Mar 2022
ob/c2+: CB, 2 Apr 2022

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