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Maroun Khoury Sader

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Maroun Khoury Sader
Archeparch of Tyre
Native name مارون خورى صادر
Church Maronite Church
Archdiocese Archeparchy of Tyre
In office 1 June 1992 – 25 September 2003
Predecessor Joseph Khoury
Successor Chucrallah-Nabil El-Hage
Orders
Ordination 11 May 1952
Consecration 18 July 1992
by Nasrallah Boutros Sfeir
Personal details
Born 25 December 1926
Ain Ebel, Mandatory Lebanese Republic, French Empire
Died 26 August 2015 (aged 88)

Maroun Khoury Sader (Arabic: مارون خوري صادر, romanized: Mārūn Khūrī Ṣāder), (born on December 25, 1926, Ain Ebel, Lebanon – died on August 26, 2015) was a Maronite Archeparch of the Maronite Catholic Archeparchy of Tyre.

Life

Ordained to the priesthood on May 11, 1952, Khoury Sader was named Archbishop of Tyre, Lebanon, on June 1, 1992, by Pope John Paul II. Maronite Patriarch of Antioch Nasrallah Boutros Sfeir ordained Sader to the episcopate on July 18, 1992, and his co-consecrators were Roland Aboujaoudé, Auxiliary bishop of Antioch, and Joseph Merhi, MLM, Eparch of Cairo. Sader retired on September 25, 2003, of his duties as Archeparch.[1]

Sader died on August 26, 2015, at the age of 88.

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