Grégoire Haddad, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death
TweetGrégoire Haddad
Lebanese archbishop
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Place of Birth: Souk El Gharb, Mount Lebanon Governorate, Lebanon
About Grégoire Haddad
- Grégoire Haddad in Arabic (25 September 1924 – 23 December 2015) was, from 1968 to 1975, Archeparch of the Melkite Greek Catholic Archeparchy of Beirut and Jbeil.
- He was known as the "Red Bishop of Beirut" promoting a secular "social movement" and a platform of rapprochement between Muslims and Christians with the onslaught of the Lebanese Civil War.
- He reinforced his controversial viewpoints through further secular movements and through Afaq magazine, which he founded.
- In 1975 under pressure from the Holy See, he resigned from active religious duty.
- Since his resignation, he became an emeritus archbishop without holding an actual diocese in Lebanon.
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