Web Site Home - Theology Home - Hierarchy Home - Locations Home - Education Home - Stewardship Home - Links Home - Vendors Home - Alphabetical Index Home - Thesaurus Home - Sitemap Home - Arabic fonts Melkite Greek Catholic Church Information CenterHis Excellency Sayedna / Sayidna / Most Reverend Archbishop George BakarHis Excellency Sayedna / Sayidna / Most Reverend Archbishop Archbishop George Bakar is the current Sayedna / Sayidna / Bishop of Patriarchal Vicar General of Alexandria (Egypt and Sudan) / Vicaire Patriarcal General pour Alexandria (L'Egypte et Soudan) . BiographyHis Excellency Sayedna / Sayidna / Most Reverend Archbishop George Bakar was born at Cairo in Egypt in 1946, and he studied Philosophy at the Sainte-Anne Seminary at Harissa in Lebanon, and Theology at the Holy Spirit University at Kaslik in Lebanon. He then obtained a degree in Theology at the Catholic University of Lyon, while following the spirituality of Father Antoine Chevrier at the Prado Seminary. His Excellency Sayedna / Sayidna / Most Reverend Archbishop George Bakar was ordained a priest in 1973 by Most Reverend Archbishop Paul Antaki at Cairo in Egypt. In 1978, His Excellency Sayedna / Sayidna / Most Reverend Archbishop George Bakarwas appointed Rector of the Patriarchal College at Cairo where he has held this post until 2006. From 2004 to 2006, his Beatitude Gregorios III Laham has named His Excellency Sayedna / Sayidna / Most Reverend Archbishop George Bakar to be the Patriarchal Economos General for the Patriarchate of Alexandria in Egypt and Sudan. His Episcopal Ordination, in the Melkite Greek Catholic Cathedral at Cairo on the 24th of March 2006 was presided over by His Beatitude Patriarch Gregorios III, surrounded by Most Reverend Archbishop Joseph Jules Zerey, Patriarchal Vicar of the Melkite Greek Catholic Patriarchate of Alexandria (Egypt and Sudan), and Most Reverend Archbishop Paul Antaki, his predecessor. On the 1st of June 2006, His Excellency Sayedna / Sayidna / Most Reverend Archbishop George Bakar was appointed Patriarchal Vicar General of Jerusalem and Grand Prior of the Patriarchal Order of the Holy Cross of Jerusalem by the Patriarch Grand Master of the Order His Beatitude Gregorios III. His Excellency Sayedna / Sayidna / Most Reverend Archbishop George Bakar celebrated the first Divine Liturgy of the Patriarchal Order of the Holy Cross of Jerusalem in the Melkite Greek Catholic Patriarchal Church of Jerusalem on the 3rd of June 2006. The Patriarchal Order of the Holy Cross of Jerusalem is a charitable organization recognized by the governments of Canada and of the province of Québec). Web Site Home - Theology Home - Hierarchy Home - Locations Home - Education Home - Stewardship Home - Links Home - Vendors Home - Alphabetical Index Home - Thesaurus Home - Sitemap Home - Arabic fonts Melkite Greek Catholic Church Information Center Martha Liles Web URL address: Melkite Greek Catholic Church Information Center or https://www.mliles.com/melkite/ E-mail: mliles@mliles.com or mliles@mliles.com Melkite Greek Catholic Church Information Center is
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