Nasrallah Boutros Sfeir | |
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Cardinal Patriarch emeritus of Antioch | |
Native name | Arabic: نصرالله بطرس صفير |
See | Antioch and the Whole East |
Appointed | 7 May 1986 |
Term ended | 26 February 2011 |
Predecessor | Anthony Peter Khoraish |
Successor | Bechara Boutros al-Rahi |
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Ordination | 7 May 1950 |
Consecration | 16 July 1961 by Paul Peter Meouchi |
Created cardinal | 26 November 1994 by Pope John Paul II |
Rank | Cardinal-Bishop Patriarch |
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Died | 12 May 2019 Achrafieh, Beirut, Lebanon | (aged 98)
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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)[1] was the 76th Maronite Catholic Patriarchate 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.