Paul Fouad Tabet

Paul Fouad Tabet Naim ( born November 28, 1929 in Maarab, Lebanon; † 20 July 2009) was a Maronite archbishop of the Roman Catholic Church and the Apostolic Nuncio.

Life

Paul Fouad Tabet received on 22 December 1956, the ordination. From 1978 to 1980 he was commissioner of the Curia on the West Indies ( Antilles); Moreover, he was appointed honorary prelates. From 1980 to 1984 was delegate in the Antilles.

Pope John Paul II appointed him on February 9, 1980 Titular Archbishop per hac vice of Sinna and appointed him as Apostolic Pro-Nuncio of the West Indies (Bahamas, Barbados, Jamaica, Trinidad and Tobago). He received his episcopal consecration on March 30, 1980 Anton Peter Khoraiche, Maronite Patriarch of Antioch; Co-consecrators were Bishop Chucrallah Harb and the Bishop Roland Aboujaoudé. In 1984 he was additionally appointed Pro-Nuncio of Belize, 1984, the appointment as Pro-Nuncio in Nigeria. In 1991 he moved into the Vatican Secretariat of State. He was employed in succession by Justo García Mullor representative of the Holy See to the United Nations Office in Geneva, 1996. In 1996 he was succeeded Luciano Storero Nuncio to Greece; and was succeeded by Patrick Coveney.

He was one of the honorary committee of the Bios to Prize Award of the High Commissioner for Refugees United Nations.

2005 was granted by John Paul II, his age-related resignation.