Ignatius Moses I Daoud
His Beatitude Mar Ignatius Moussa I Daoud Cardinal (* as Basile Moses Daoud on 18 September 1930 in Meskané, Syria, † April 7, 2012 in Rome) was Patriarch of the Syrian Catholic Church of Antioch and later Cardinal.
Life
Basil Moussa Daoud was born in 1930 as one of six children in Meskané, a village near Homs in Syria. He studied from 1941 Catholic theology and philosophy at St. Ephrem - St -Benoît- seminar of the French Benedictines in Jerusalem, later after its relocation from 1949 to 1955 in the convent of Charfet ( Šarfeh ), Lebanon. On 17 October 1954 he received by the Patriarch Ignatius Gabriel I Cardinal Tappouni at St. George's Cathedral in Beirut ordination. Of the seven consecrated on this day priests were five bishops later.
Daoud returned in 1955 in its Heimateparchie Homs back and worked in various capacities, including serving as a parish pastor, teacher, school director and secretary of the archbishop and finally Vicar General of the archeparchy Homs. Starting in 1962, Daoud studied canon law at the Pontifical Lateran University in Rome, where he graduated with a degree in Kanonischems law. In 1970 he was appointed by Patriarch Mar Ignatius Antoine II Hayek as Secretary-General.
In July 1977, he was elected by the Patriarchal Synod of Syrian Catholic Bishop of Cairo and received on 18 September of the same year by Patriarch Ignatius Antoine II Hayek episcopal ordination; Co-consecrators were the auxiliary bishop of the Patriarch, Archbishop Flavien Melki Zacharie, and the bishop of his Heimateparchie Homs, Joseph Jacob Abiad. In October 1977, he was enthroned at St. Catherine's Church in Cairo. He was a consultant and later a member of the Commission for the Revision of the Code of the Eastern Catholic Churches ( CCEO ) and is responsible for the translation into Arabic.
In 1994 he was transferred by the Patriarchal Synod to the bishopric of Homs, Hama and Nabk in Syria, his Heimateparchie and elected in 1998 by the Synod as Mor Ignatius Moussa I as Patriarch of the Syrian Catholic Church, based in Beirut.
In 2000, Pope John Paul II appointed him Prefect of the Congregation for Eastern Churches, and thus at the head of the body responsible for the Eastern Catholic Churches Curia authority. On 21 February 2001, the appointment was made a cardinal. In addition, he was appointed as Grand Chancellor of the Pontifical Oriental Institute on April 21, 2005.
On June 9, 2007, Pope Benedict XVI. the resignation, which had been put forward by Cardinal Daoud grounds of age, at. He died of a stroke in the Gemelli Hospital in Rome. His body was transferred to Beirut, the funeral ceremony was held on April 13, 2012 in the Syrian Catholic cathedral place, the burial in the grave patriarch laying the monastery Charfet ( Šarfeh ).
Membership in the Roman Curia
- Congregation for the Doctrine of Faith
- Congregation for the Causes of Saints
- Pontifical Council for Promoting Christian Unity
- Pontifical Council for Legislative Texts