Antoine Chbeir

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Antoine Chbeir (born 1961) is a Lebanese Maronite bishop of the Maronite Catholic Eparchy of Latakia.

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Antoine Chbeir was born in 1961 in Ghosta, Mount Lebanon Governorate, Lebanon. He was ordained on13 June 1988. The decision of the 14th Synod of Bishops of the Maronite Church on 10 March 2015 convenes to elected him Bishop of Latakia. Pope Francis approved his election as Bishop of Latakia on 14 March 2015. [1]

On 18 April 2015 Chbeir was ordained bishop by the hands of Maronite Patriarch of Antioch, Béchara Boutros Raï, OMM. His co-consecrators were Antoine Nabil Andari, Titular bishop of Tarsus of Maronites and Joseph Soueif, bishop of Cyprus.

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  1. "Eparchy of Latakia, Syria (Maronite Rite)". GCatholic. Retrieved 2 August 2023.

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