Maximos IV. Sayegh

Maximos IV Sayegh Cardinal SMSP, Maximos IV Saigh also, ( born April 10, 1878 in Aleppo, Syria; † November 5, 1967 in Beirut, Lebanon) was Patriarch of Antioch and All the East, of Alexandria and Jerusalem of the Melkite Greek Catholic Church.

Life

Sayegh received on 17 September 1905, the ordination. In 1919 he was appointed Archbishop of Tyre. On August 30, 1919, he received by Patriarch Demetrius I Qadi episcopal ordination; Co-consecrators were Bishop Ignazio Homsi and Archbishop Flaviano Khoury. In 1933 he was appointed Archbishop of Beirut and Jbeil.

On October 30, 1947, he was elected by the Holy Synod of the Melkite Greek Catholic Church in Ain Traz patriarch.

Traditionally, the Patriarch of Antioch and the Spiritual Protector of the over 900 -year-old Military and Hospitaller Order of Saint Lazarus of Jerusalem, and to follow the rules of the order of St. Augustine. He was re-founder and first Grand Master of the Patriarchal Order of the Holy Cross in Jerusalem.

He participated in the Second Vatican Council and was regarded as essential "Defenders of worth preserving nature of the Oriental Churches on the Vatican II " On February 22, 1965 it took Pope Paul VI. as cardinal to the College of Cardinals.