Youssef Ibrahim Sarraf

Youssef Ibrahim Sarraf ( born October 5, 1940 in Cairo, Egypt; † 31 December 2009) was Bishop of Cairo of Chaldean Catholic Church.

Life

Youssef Ibrahim Sarraf attended the Jesuit school in Cairo and then joined the seminary in Maadi in Cairo. He then studied philosophy and theology at the Pontifical Urban University in Rome. He was ordained a priest of the Uniate with the Roman Catholic Church, Chaldean Church on December 19, 1964. Later he studied canon law at the Pontifical Lateran University. Youssef Ibrahim Sarraf was secretary of the Second Vatican Council.

In 1984 he was appointed by Pope John Paul II appointed Bishop of the Eparchy of Cairo of the Chaldeans. He received his episcopal consecration on May 13, 1984, the Patriarch of Babylon of the Chaldeans, Paul Cheikho; Were co-consecrators Raphael I Bidawid, Bishop of Beirut, and George F. Garmou, Archbishop of Mosul.

He was 2009 President of the Commission for Public Relations of the Synod of Bishops in Africa.