Fouad Twal

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Fouad Twal (Arabic: فؤاد طوال) (born October 23, 1940 at Madaba) is a Roman Catholic archbishop. He currently serves as the Latin Patriarch of Jerusalem.

He was ordained to the priesthood on June 29, 1966, and appointed the prelate of the territorial prelature of Tunis by Pope John Paul II on May 30, 1992. He was concrecrated to the episcopate on July 22 later that year. In 1995, the territorial prelature was elevated to become the Diocese of Tunis, and Twal was made an archbishop ad personam. In 2005, Pope Benedict XVI named him the coadjutor archbishop of Jerusalem. He succeeded Michel Sabbah as the Latin Patriarch of Jerusalem in 2008.

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• Archbishop Faoud Twal; Catholic-Hierarchy.org; retrieved February 9, 2006.
• Photos of Fouad Twal (maXarios.com)