George Riashi

George Riashi BC ( born November 25, 1933, Kaa El Rim, Lebanon, † October 28, 2012 ) was Archbishop of the Melkite Greek Catholic Church of Tripoli in Lebanon.

Life

Georg Riashi was one of nine children of Khattar and Zahia Riashi. Until 1948 he attended the local school and then moved to the St. John's Seminary of the Basilian. By 1953, he was taught in the School of Basilian and put the meantime a temporal religious profession. His religious name was Athanasius, according to Athanasius the Great. In 1956 he passed the eternal vows and began in 1958 to study at the Jesuit University in Beirut. From 1958 to 1965 he studied philosophy, theology, computer science and mathematics. In 1962 he was ordained a subdeacon and a deacon in 1963. With the priesthood on April 4, 1965 he put down the name of Athanasius and bore the name of George, he was a member of the religious community " Ordo Basilianus of John S. Baptistae, Soaritarum Melkitarum " ( Order abbreviation BC ). His French study, he became, after he had received a scholarship to continue at the Catholic University of Paris. Then he went back to Lebanon and taught for the next five years at St. John Seminary of the Basilian. At the same time he devoted himself to the work in the scouting movement and was the Chaplain-General for the whole of Lebanon.

On December 1, 1971 Riachi was sent to Detroit and supported there Archimandrite Agabios in his office. He took over the pastorate in 1978 in Detroit and was appointed by Patriarch Maximos V. Hakim for Archimandrite on July 21, 1981.

Bishop dignity

Pope John Paul II appointed him on 21 April 1987 the first bishop of the Eparchy of St. Archangel Michael in Sydney. The Patriarch of Antioch Archbishop Maximos V. Hakim and co-consecrators Archbishop Joseph Elias Tawil of Newton ( USA) and Archbishop Jean Mansour SMSP, Titular Archbishop of Apamea in Syria dei Greco - Melkiti and Auxiliary Bishop of Antioch, consecrated him bishop on July 19, 1987.

On 28 July 1995 he was appointed Archbishop of Tripoli in Lebanon by Pope John Paul II. In this capacity he was a participant at the Special Assembly of the Synod of Bishops on the Middle East.

On 3 March 2010, Pope Benedict XVI. its age-related resignation.