Cyril Salim Bustros

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Archbishop Cyril Salim Bustros

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Archbishop Cyril Salim Bustros (born. January 26, 1939) is the eparch of the Melkite Greek Catholic Church in the United States.

Contents 1 Life 1.1 Education 1.2 Priesthood 1.3 Episcopate 2 See also 3 External link:

[edit] Life

Archbishop Cyril was born at Ain-Borday, near Baalbeck, Lebanon on January 26, 1939.

[edit] Education

After his primary and secondary studies at the Minor Seminary of St. Paul at Harissa, he pursued his philosophical studies at St. Paul Institute in 1956 and 1957, and made his novitiate at the White Fathers in Gap, France. Then, he studied theology for four years (1958-1962) at the Major Seminary at St. Anne of Jerusalem.

[edit] Priesthood

He was ordained to the priesthood in the Missionary Society of Saint Paul on June 29, 1962.

From 1962-1970, he was Professor of Classical Greek and of French Literature at the Minor Seminary. Then from 1972-1974 Professor of Philosophy and Theology at St. Paul Institute in Harissa.

Interrupting his teaching, he pursued a Doctorate of Theology at the Catholic University of Louvain in Belgium, and received his degree in 1976. Then for eleven years he was Director of the St. Paul Institute of Philosophy and of Theology of the Paulist Missionaries at Harissa, and at the same time Professor at St. Joseph University in Beirut, and in various lay centers.

[edit] Episcopate

In 1988 the Holy Synod of the Melkite Church elected him Archbishop of Baalbeck, succeeding the Elias Zoghby. He was ordained to the episcopate on November 27, 1988, in the Basilica of St. Paul in Harissa, by Maximos V Hakim, assisted by Archbishops Elias Zoghby and Joseph Raya.

Archbishop Cyril was appointed to lead the Melkite church in the United States on June 22, 2004, replacing the retiring bishop John Elya. He was enthroned as Eparch of Newton, Massachusetts at Annunciation Cathedral on August 18, 2004.

[edit] See also

• Melkite Greek Catholic Church
• Gregory III Laham, current Patriarch
• Eparchy of Newton
• Joseph Tawil, former eparch
• John Elya, former eparch

[edit] External link:

• Archbishop Cyril discusses the culture clash between Islam and the West
• Melkite Greek Catholic Patriarchate of Antioch, Alexandria and Jerusalem
• L'Église Melkite/The Melkite Church.
• Melkite Catholic Web Ring.
• Official Website of the Melkite Church in the US.
• Extensive history of the Melkite Church
• Melkite Ambassadors Young Adult Website.