Joseph Jules Zerey

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]

Joseph Jules Zerey
Vicar Apostolic of Jerusalem
Melkite Catholic Patriarch Gregory III Laham with Archbishop Jules Joseph Zerey
SeeJerusalem
Appointed4 June 2008
PredecessorGeorges Michel Bakar
SuccessorYasser Ayyash
Other postsTitular Archbishop of Damiata dei Greco-Melkiti
Orders
Ordination5 May 1967
Consecration9 November 2001
by Gregory III Laham
Personal details
Born (1941-06-09) 9 June 1941
Alexandria
DenominationMelkite Greek Catholic Church
Previous postAuxiliary Bishop of Antioch (2001-2008)

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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