Antoine Hamid Mourany

Antoine Hamid Mourany[1] (born on January 24, 1930 in Al Qoubaiyat, Lebanon - died on April 16, 2012) was an archbishop of the Maronite Catholic Archeparchy of Damascus.

Life

Ordained priest on 11 June 1960, Mourany was appointed bishop on 5 June 1989 by Pope John Paul II to the Archeparchy of Damascus. The Maronite Patriarch of Antioch, Nasrallah Boutros Sfeir gave him on 16 September of the same year his episcopal ordination, and his co-consecrators were Joseph Merhi (bishop), CML, Bishop of Cairo, and Georges Abi-Saber, OLM, auxiliary bishop in Antioch.

On 10 March 1999 Mourany resigned of his duties as archeparch.

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