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Lebanese Catholic Maronite eparch (1930–2019) From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Roland Aboujaoudé (7 September 1930 – 2 May 2019) was a Lebanese Catholic Maronite eparch of the Maronite Catholic Patriarchate of Antioch.[1]
Roland Aboujaoudé was born on 7 September 1930 in Jal-Edib, Lebanon. He was ordained priest on 25 April 1959.[2] On 12 July 1975,[3] Aboujaoudé was appointed patriarchal vicar of Antioch and titular bishop of Arca in Phoenicia dei Maroniti.[4] He was ordained bishop on 23 August 1975 by the hands of the Maronite Patriarch of Antioch Cardinal Anthony Peter Khoraish and his co-consecrators were Elie Farah, Archeparch of Cyprus and Joseph Merhi, MLM, Eparch of Cairo.
On 1985[3] Aboujaoudé was appointed Vicar general of Antioch till 1988 when he was appointed auxiliary bishop of Antioch.
Since 1997 he had been a Curial Bishop and Protosyncellus of the Maronite Patriarch.
On 6 June 2011, he presented his resignation from the post of auxiliary bishop and it was accepted by Pope Benedict XVI.[5]
Roland Aboujaoudé was co-consecrator in episcopal ordinations of following bishops:
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