Antoine Hamid Mourany

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Antoine Hamid Mourany[1] (Arabic: أنطوان حميد موراني, 24 January 1930, in Al Qoubaiyat, Lebanon – 16 April 2012) was an archeparch of the Maronite Catholic Archeparchy of Damascus.

Life

Ordained priest on 11 June 1960, Mourany was elected eparch on 5 June 1989 by the Maronite Synod 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 eparch in Antioch.

On 10 March 1999 Mourany resigned from his duties as archeparch.

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