Ignatius Gabriel I. Tappouni

Ignatius Gabriel I Cardinal Tappouni (Arabic جبرائيل تبوني, DMG Ǧibrā ʾ īl Tabbūnī; French Ignace -Gabriel I. Tappouni; born November 3, 1879 in Mosul, Ottoman Empire, Iraq today, † January 29, 1968 in Beirut ) was a leading prelate of the Syriac Catholic Church. He served as Patriarch of Antioch from 1929 to 1968, and was elevated to cardinal in 1935.

Life

Born as Abdul- Ahad Dawood Tappouni, baptized as Leo Gabriel Tappouni, he studied at the Syro -Chaldean seminary of the Dominicans. He was ordained priest on November 3, 1902, where he took the name Dominik. After teaching at the same seminary until 1908 Tappouni worked as secretary to the nuncio in Mesopotamia.

On 12 September 1912 he was appointed titular bishop of Danaba and Chaldean Vicar Apostolic of Mardin. Tappouni was posted on January 19, 1913 Titular Bishop of Batnae dei Siri, at the same time he received his episcopal consecration of Patriarch Ignatius Rahmani. At his ordination, he took the name Theophile Gabriel. During the First World War he came into custody of the Ottoman Turks in Aleppo during the Ottoman persecution of Christians. Many people tried to Tappounis release, including Emperor Franz Joseph of Austria.

After his release, he was ordained on 24 September 1921 by Patriarch Archbishop of Aleppo Rahmani. Tappouni was unanimously elected by the Syrian Synod as the successor to the late Patriarch of Antioch as Rahmani and thus to the head of the Syrian Catholic Church. Pius XI. confirmed his election and made him in the consistory on 16 December 1936, Cardinal Priest of Santi XII Apostoli. Tappouni, who took the name Ignatius Gabriel, was the first prelate of the Catholic Eastern Church since Pius IX. , Who was admitted to the College of Cardinals.

Tappouni was one of the cardinal electors, the Conclave of 1939, Pius XII. selected and participated in the conclave in 1958, the John XXIII. chose. From 1962 to 1965 he took part in the Second Vatican Council. During the Council's deliberations on the statement against anti-Semitism, Tappouni described the document as inappropriate, since the recognition of Israel by the Vatican would make the Muslim leaders in the Middle East angry. After working as a Cardinal elector he resigned on February 11, 1965 in accordance with the Motu Proprio Ad purpuratorum patrum, which means that Patriarch who are not members of the Western Church, should have no titular church or diakonie, his titular church of Santi XII Apostoli.

He died in Beirut at the age of 88 years and is buried in the Syrian Catholic Cathedral of Beirut.

Honors

Trivia

The theologically conservative Cardinal Giuseppe Siri Tappouni called on in the conclave of 1963, to stand.