Joseph Jules Zerey

Joseph Jules Zerey, also Yussuf Jerez (born 9 June 1941 in Alexandria, Egypt) is Archbishop of the Melkite Greek Catholic Church and the Apostolic Vicar of Jerusalem.

Career

On May 5, 1967 Joseph Jule Zerey was ordained a priest and was appointed Titular Archbishop of Damietta dei Greco - Melkiti and Auxiliary Bishop of Antioch on June 22, 2001. He received his episcopal consecration on November 9, 2001, the Patriarch of Antioch Archbishop Gregory III. Laham BS, it assisted as co-consecrators the Archbishops Elias Zoghbi and Paul Antaki. Zerey was appointed Patriarchal Vicar of Alexandria and Synkellos for the Melkite Church in Egypt and Sudan Also on 22 June 2001.

On 4 June 2008 Zerey was appointed Vicar Apostolic of Jerusalem. In 2006 he was Mitkonsekrator at Georges Michel Bakar Titular Archbishop of Pelusium dei Greco - Melkiti, whose successor he 2008 Office of the Apostolic Vicar of Jerusalem should be, while Bakar was appointed Patriarchal Vicar of Alexandria 2008. Zerey is Grand Prior of the Patriarchal Order of the Holy Cross in Jerusalem.

Pastoral duties

2010 was Archbishop Zerey participants in the Synod of Bishops for the Middle East in Rome. Finally protocol he threw in his objection to the question, why " would emigrate, many Christian families from the Middle East? " He expressed the determination, " that many of our so-called " Christian " families are in urgent need reevangelisiert ". He simultaneously announced the creation of an international center for the spirituality of the family in Nazareth. Also Zerey understood as all his brethren Melkite, as an intermediary between the Eastern Churches and the Roman Catholic Church. He is driving the pastoral and social commitment in Jerusalem and supports the existing since 1950 charity in the center of the Old City of Jerusalem.