OTHER PONTIFICAL ACTS

VATICAN CITY, SEP 12, 2002 (VIS) - The Holy Father gave his blessing to the election by the Synod of Bishops of the Antiochene Church of the Maronites, who gathered from June 2 to 8, 2002 at Bkerke, of Fr. Mansour Hobeika, director of St. Jean Okaibe school, to the episcopal see of the Bishops of Zahleh of the Maronites (priests 29, religious 47) in Lebanon. The bishop-elect was born in 1941 in Hadeth-Baalbek, Lebanon and was ordained a priest in 1968. He succeeds Bishop Georges Scander whose resignation from the pastoral care of the diocese was accepted in accordance with Canon 210, para. 2, of the Code of Canons of the Eastern Churches.

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