Michel Sabbah


  • Michel Sabbah
  • ميشيل صباح
Patriarch Emeritus of Jerusalem
ArchdioceseJerusalem
SeeJerusalem
Appointed11 December 1987
Installed6 January 1988
Term ended21 June 2008
PredecessorGiacomo Giuseppe Beltritti
SuccessorFouad Boutros Twal
Orders
Ordination29 June 1955
by Alberto Gori
Consecration6 January 1988
by Pope John Paul II
Personal details
Born (1933-03-19) 19 March 1933 (age 91)
DenominationRoman Catholic
Styles of
Patriarch Michael Sabbah
Reference styleHis Beatitude
Spoken styleYour Beatitude
Religious styleMonsignor
Posthumous stylen/a

Michel Sabbah (Arabic: ميشيل صباح; born 19 March 1933) is a Palestinian Catholic prelate who served as the Latin Patriarch of Jerusalem from 1987 to 2008, the first non-Italian to hold the position in more than five centuries.