Ghaleb Moussa Abdalla Bader

Bishop Ghaleb Moussa Abdallah Bader (born on 22 July 1951 in Khirbeh, Jordan) is a Jordanian Roman Catholic bishop and current Archbishop of the Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Algiers since 24 May 2008.

Biography

Ghaleb Bader entered in the minor seminary in Beit Jala in 1963. Monsignor Bader was ordained a priest in Amman by Neemeh Simaan on 13 June 1975. He became vicar of the Christ the King parish in the same city in 1976. His priest is then Bishop Michel Sabbah, future Latin Patriarch of Jerusalem. Leaving his role as parish priest in 1979, he began a career as a canonist, participates in the Arabic translation of 1983 Code of Canon Law and became president of the Ecclesiastical Court of Jerusalem in 1988. He became parish priest of the Annunciation parish in Amman, in the district of Jabal Al- Weibdeh in August 1992, taking the presidency of the Ecclesiastical Court of Amman. In 1998, he left his curial task to devote himself exclusively to the chairman of the tribunal.

Ghaleb Bader was appointed Archbishop of Algiers by Pope Benedict XVI on 24 May 2008, replacing Bishop Henri Teissier, and consecrated bishop by the patriarch Fouad Twal, assisted by patriarch Michel Sabbah and Henri Tessier on 17 June 2008 in the church of the Sacred Heart of Jesus in Jordan.

Archbishop Bader was consulter to Pontifical Council for Interreligious Dialogue from 1996 to 2001.

External links

http://www.catholic-hierarchy.org/bishop/bbader.html

http://www.santegidio.org/pageID/4329/langID/it/orator/598/Bader_Ghaleb.html