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Antoine Nassif

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His Excellency

Antoine Nassif
Syriac Catholic Apostolic Exarch of Canada
ChurchSyriac Catholic Church
DioceseSyriac Catholic Apostolic Exarchate for Canada
AppointedJanuary 3, 2016
Previous post(s)Rector of the Patriarchal Seminary
Orders
OrdinationJuly 26, 1992
by Ignatius Antony II Hayyek
ConsecrationJanuary 23, 2016
by Ignatius Joseph III Yonan
RankApostolic Exarch
Personal details
Born (1969-02-12) February 12, 1969 (age 55)
DenominationSyriac Catholicism

Paul Antoine Nassif (born February 21, 1969, in Beirut, Lebanon) is the current Syriac Catholic Exarch of Canada.

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Antoine Nassif received on 26 July 1992 by the Syriac Catholic Patriarch of Antioch, Ignatius Antony II Hayyek, the sacrament of Holy orders.

On January 7, 2016 Pope Francis appointed him titular bishop of Serigene and ordered him the first Syriac Catholic Exarch of Canada.[1] The Syriac Catholic Patriarch of Antioch, Ignatius Joseph III Yonan, on 23 January of the same year, gave him his episcopal consecration; his co-consecrators were the Emeritus Curial Archbishop in the Syriac Catholic Patriarchate of Antioch, Denys Raboula Antoine Beylouni, and the bishop of the Eparchy of Our Lady of Deliverance of Newark, Yousif Benham Habash.

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