OTHER PONTIFICAL ACTS

VATICAN CITY, OCT 8, 1999 (VIS) - The Holy Father gave his blessing to the election by the Synod of Bishops of the Antiochene Maronite Church of Fr. Raymond Eid, pastor of Jezzine and episcopal vicar for the region of Jezzine, Lebanon, as archbishop of Damascus of the Maronites (Catholics 8,000, priests 2, religious 2), Syria. The archbishop-elect was born in Maraat-el-Dahre, Lebanon, in 1930 and ordained a priest in 1957. He succeeds Archbishop Antoine Hamid Mourany, whose resignation from the pastoral care of the same archdiocese was accepted by the synod in accordance with canon 210 of the Code of Canons of the Eastern Churches.

NER; RE;...;...;EID; MOURANY ;VIS;19991008;Word: 100;