Ignatius Joseph III Yonan

His Beatitude Mar Ignatius Joseph III. Younan, whose real name is Joseph F. Younan (* November 15, 1944 in Hassakeh ( Hassake ), Syria ) is united with Rome Patriarch of the Syrian Catholic Church of Antioch in Beirut.

Life

Joseph F. Younan, one of nine siblings, studied at the Seminary of St. Ephrem, St. -Benoît- seminar of the French Benedictines in Charfet, Lebanon. He then studied theology and philosophy at the Collegio di Propaganda Fide of the Jesuits in Rome, at the Pontifical Urban University in Rome. Joseph F. Younan received September 12, 1971 ordained a priest and was then a teacher at the seminary in Charfet, and later rector of the seminary. In his home diocese Hassakeh he was from 1973 to 1980 Head of Division catechism from 1980 parish priest in the Church of the Annunciation in Beirut.

In 1986, he built up in the Syrian Catholic community in the greater New York and New Jersey. In 1988 he was appointed by the Roman Congregation for the Oriental Churches to Offizial the Syrian Catholic clergy in the United States and Canada in 1991 finally appointed apostolic delegate.

Pope John Paul II appointed him in 1995 the first bishop of the Syrian Catholic Eparchy of " Our Lady of Deliverance of Newark ." The Episcopal Ordination at the Basilica of St. Peter and Paul in the Syrian Qamishli donated to him on January 7, 1996 Bishop Ignatius Antoine II Hayek, Patriarch of the Syrian Catholic Church of Antioch; Co-consecrators were Eustathe Mounayer Joseph, Archbishop of Damascus, and Denys Raboula Antoine Beylouni, Archbishop of Aleppo in Syria.

He knows next to Syriac, Aramaic, Turkish, English and Latin and German.

Patriarch of Antioch

On 21 January 2009, he was of the Syrian Catholic Synod of Bishops in Rome as the successor to SS Ignatius Pierre VIII Abdel- Ahads elected Patriarch. On 23 January 2009, he completed his first visit to Pope Benedict XVI ..

On Friday, May 14, 2010 Blood was Younan main celebrant and patron of the Pontifikalamtes Weingartner Blutritt an annual procession of riders to the relic of the Holy Blood, which is held since March 5, 1094 in the Basilica of St. Martin Basilica in Weingarten.

Medals and Decorations

• Benedict Medal of St. Benedict Seelsorgeeinheit Ochsenhausen, 2010