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Nasrallah Peter Sfeir
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Lebanese Catholic cardinal (1920-2019)
Key facts
- Native name
- Arabic : نصرالله بطرس صفير
- See
- Antioch and the Whole East
- Elected
- 19 April 1986
- Appointed
- 7 May 1986
- Term ended
- 26 February 2011
- Predecessor
- Anthony Peter Khoraish
- Successor
- Bechara Boutros al-Rahi
- Previous posts
- Auxiliary Bishop of Antioch (1961–1986) Titular Bishop of Tarsus of the Maronites (1961–1986)
- Ordination
- 7 May 1950
- Consecration
- 16 July 1961, by Paul Peter Meouchi
- Created cardinal
- 26 November 1994, by Pope John Paul II
- Rank
- Patriarch ( Cardinal-bishop )
- Born
- ( 1920-05-15 ) 15 May 1920, Rayfoun , Lebanon
- Died
- 12 May 2019 (2019-05-12) (aged 98), Achrafieh , Beirut , Lebanon
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Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- human
- Gender
- male
- Citizenship
- Lebanon
- Place of birth
- Rayfoun
- Place of death
- Beirut
- Occupation
- Catholic bishop
- Position held
- titular bishop
- Educated at
- Saint Joseph University of Beirut
- Languages spoken
- Syriac
- Native language
- Arabic
- Religion
- Maronite Church
- Image
- Cardinal Nasrallah Peter Sfeir.jpg
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- Commons category
- Nasrallah Boutros Sfeir
- date of birth
- 1920-05-15
- consecrator
- João Chedid
- date of death
- 2019-05-12
- name in native language
- نصر الله بُطرس صفير
- manner of death
- natural causes
- cause of death
- pneumonitis
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Encyclopedic overview
Nasrallah Boutros Sfeir (Moran Mor Naṣrallah Buṭrus Ṣufayr; Arabic: الكاردينال مار نصر الله بطرس صفير; Latin: Victor Petrus Sfeir; 15 May 1920 – 12 May 2019) was the 76th Maronite Catholic Patriarch of Antioch and the Whole Levant and head of the Maronite Church from 1986 to 2011. He was made a cardinal by Pope John Paul II in 1994.
Early life and ordination
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