Jules Mikhael Al-Jamil

Jules Mikhael Al- Jamil ( born November 18, 1938 in Karakosche, Iraq, † December 3, 2012 in Rome ) was a Syrian- Catholic Archbishop Curia.

Life

Jules Mikhael Al- Jamil received on 7 June 1964, the ordination. After his studies and pastoral activity in Mosul Al- Jamil was secretary of the Patriarchate in Beirut. He studied philosophy and psychology at the Catholic University of France. In 1990 he received his doctorate at the Pontifical Lateran University.

Pope John Paul II appointed him on 1 August 1986 as Auxiliary Bishop of Antioch and Titular Archbishop of Tagritum. The Patriarch of Antioch, Ignatius Antoine II Hayek, donated to him on 9 November 1986, the episcopal ordination; Were co-consecrators Philippe Denys Beilouné, Archbishop of Aleppo, and Denys Raboula Antoine Beylouni, Auxiliary Bishop of Antioch.

In 1984 he founded the Syriac Centre for Research and Studies. He was a member of the Committee for the preparation of the Synod in Lebanon 1992. 1996 he was procurator of the Patriarchate of Antioch, headquartered in Rome, a year later rector of Santa Maria della Conception in Campo Marzio. In 2002, Pope John Paul II appointed as Apostolic Visitor of the Syriac Catholic Church in Western Europe.

In 2008 he was made an honorary citizen of the Italian city of Atri. Since November 2011 he was the familiars of the Teutonic Order, and taught at the Academy, Henry VI. of Hohenstaufen. In 2012 he became Pope Benedict XVI. appointed to the Congregation for the Causes of Saints.

He was one of the few people in the world who could speak and read Aramaic.