Life
Ibrahim Salameh joined to the Missionary Society of Saint Paul and received on 13 July 1975 the sacrament of Holy Orders.
On August 15, 2013 Pope Francis appointed him titular bishop of Palmyra of Greek Melkites and named him to the Melkite Apostolic Exarchate of Argentina. [1] The Melkite Greek Catholic Patriarch of Antioch, Gregory III Laham, BS, gave him on September 28 of the same year, the episcopal ordination, and his co-consecrators were the Archbishop of Beirut and Jbeil, Cyril Salim Bustros SMSP, and the Archbishop of Baalbek, Elias Rahal, SMSP.
Pope Francis is the head of the Catholic Church and sovereign of the Vatican City State. Francis is the first Jesuit pope, the first from the Americas, the first from the Southern Hemisphere, the first to visit and hold papal mass in the Arabian Peninsula, and the first pope from outside Europe since the Syrian Gregory III, who reigned in the 8th century.
Gregory III Laham, B.S., Emeritus Patriarch of Antioch and All the East, of Alexandria and Jerusalem, is the former spiritual leader of the Melkite Greek Catholic Church. He was elected on November 29, 2000, succeeding Patriarch Maximos V Hakim. He retired on May 6, 2017.
Cyril Salim Bustros is the archbishop of the Melkite Greek Catholic Archeparchy of Beirut and Byblos and a former Professor at Saint Joseph University in Beirut. A native of Lebanon, he formerly served as archbishop of Baalbeck and later as eparch for the Melkite Church in the United States.
