Khalil Abi-Nader
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Khalil Abi-Nader was the Maronite Catholic
bishop of Beirut
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Ordained to the priesthood on June 29, 1947, he was appointed bishop on April 4, 1986 and was ordained on May 18, 1986. He retired on June 8, 1996.
Maronite Church
The Syriac Maronite Church of Antioch is an Eastern Catholic Church in full communion with the Holy See of Rome . It traces its heritage back to the community founded by Maron, a 4th-century Syriac monk venerated as a saint. The first Maronite Patriarch, John Maron, was elected in the late 7th...
bishop of Beirut
Beirut
Beirut is the capital and largest city of Lebanon, with a population ranging from 1 million to more than 2 million . Located on a peninsula at the midpoint of Lebanon's Mediterranean coastline, it serves as the country's largest and main seaport, and also forms the Beirut Metropolitan...
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Ordained to the priesthood on June 29, 1947, he was appointed bishop on April 4, 1986 and was ordained on May 18, 1986. He retired on June 8, 1996.