Joseph Khoury

Joseph Khoury ( born 1 November 1936 in Behwaita ) is Bishop Emeritus of Saint- Maron de Montréal.

Life

Joseph Khoury received on 19 December 1964, the ordination. Pope John Paul II appointed him on 29 April 1993 to the Apostolic Visitor of the Maronites in Western and Northern Europe and Titular Bishop of Chonochora.

The Maronite Patriarch of Antioch and all the East, Nasrallah Pierre Sfeir Cardinal, consecrated him on 4 September of the same year to the bishop; Were co-consecrators Roland Aboujaoudé, Auxiliary Bishop of Antioch, and Gabriel, Tobias, Archbishop of Tripoli.

On November 11, 1996, he was appointed Bishop of Saint- Maron de Montréal. On January 10, 2013 Benedict XVI accepted. its age-related resignation.