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Raymond Eid

Raymond Eid (6 August 1930 – 11 June 2012) was the Maronite Catholic Archeparchy of Damascus, Syria.

Life

Eid was born in Mazraat el Daher, Lebanon on 6 August 1930. Ordained to the priesthood on 30 May 1957 to the Maronite Catholic Eparchy of Sidon, Eid was elected Archbishop of the Maronite Catholic Archeparchy of Damascus on 5 June 1999 by the Maronite Synod.

Maronite Patriarch of Antioch, Nasrallah Boutros Sfeir, gave him on 20 November of the same year the Episcopal ordination. His co-consecrators were Tanios El Khoury, Eparch of Sidon, and Emile Eid, vice-president of the commission for the codification of the Eastern Churches' law.

He retired on 25 September 2005. and in 2006 Pope Benedict XVI accepted his age-related withdrawal.

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External links

  • http://www.catholic-hierarchy.org/bishop/beid.html Raymond Eid