Joseph Jules Zerey

Joseph Jules Zerey
Vicar Apostolic of Jerusalem
Melkite Catholic Patriarch Gregory III Laham with Archbishop Jules Joseph Zerey
See Jerusalem
Appointed 4 June 2008
Predecessor Georges Michel Bakar
Successor Yasser Ayyash
Other posts Titular Archbishop of Damiata dei Greco-Melkiti
Orders
Ordination 5 May 1967
Consecration 9 November 2001
by Gregory III Laham
Personal details
Born (1941-06-09) 9 June 1941
Alessandria d'Egitto
Denomination Melkite Greek Catholic Church
Previous post Auxiliary Bishop of Antioch (2001-2008)

Joseph Jules Zerey (born 9 June 1941 in Alexandria, Egypt) is a retired archbishop of the Melkite Greek Catholic Church and former Apostolic Vicar of Jerusalem.[1]

Career

Zerey was ordained a priest on 5 May 1967 and started Working at the Patriarchal College School in Cairo in 1967. In 1972 he was appointed as director of the Patriarchal College School in Heliopolis. He was a patron of the Church of St. Joseph in Al Zaytoon-Cairo from 1985 to 2001, and president of the second-degree spiritual Court.

On 22 June 2001 he was appointed titular Archbishop of Damietta and Auxiliary Bishop of Antioch. He was consecrated bishop on 9 November 2001 by Patriarch Gregory III Laham, assisted by co-consecrators Archbishops Elias Zoghby and Paul Antaki. On 22 June 2001 Zerey was appointed Patriarchal Vicar of Alexandria and Synkellos for the Melkite Church in Egypt and Sudan.

On 4 June 2008 Zerey was appointed Vicar Apostolic of Jerusalem. During 2010 Zerey was a participant in the Synod of Bishops for the Middle East in Rome. At the synod he published an intervention discussing the need to re-evangelize Christians living in the Holy Land and announcing the creation of a new international center for family spirituality in Nazareth.[2]

On February 9, 2018, Zerey was replaced as Patriarchal Vicar of Jerusalem by the Melkite Synod, due to his age. He was succeeded by Archbishop Yasser Ayyash. [3]

Distinctions

Notes

  1. ↑ "Archbishop Joseph Jules Zerey". Catholic-Hierarchy.org. David M. Cheney. Retrieved 21 January 2015.
  2. ↑ "Intervention of Mons. Joseph Jules ZEREY, Titular Archbishop of Damiata of the Greek-Melkites, Auxiliary and Protosyncellus of the Patriarchate of Antioch of the Greek-Melkites (JERUSALEM)". storico.radiovaticana.va. Vatican Radio. Archived from the original on 21 April 2013. Retrieved 20 December 2012.
  3. ↑ "Mgr Joseph Ayyash nouvel eveque melkite Jerusalem". la-croix.com. La Croix. Retrieved 20 February 2018.
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