Background
Archbishop Cyril was born at Ain-Borday, near Baalbek, Lebanon on January 26, 1939.
Archbishop Cyril was born at Ain-Borday, near Baalbek, Lebanon on January 26, 1939.
After his primary and secondary studies at the Minor Seminary of Saint Paul at Harissa, he pursued his philosophical studies at Saint Paul Institute in 1956 and 1957, and made his novitiate at the White Fathers in Gap, France. He then studied theology for four years (1958–1962) at the Major Seminary at Saint Anne of Jerusalem.
A native of Lebanon, he formerly served as archbishop of Baalbeck and later as eparch for the Melkite Church in the United States. Education
Priesthood
He was ordained to the priesthood in the Society of the Missionaries of Saint Paul on June 29, 1962. From 1962 to 1970, he was Professor of Classical Greek and of French Literature at the Minor Seminary.
Then from 1972-1974 Professor of Philosophy and Theology at Saint Paul Institute in Harissa.
Interrupting his teaching, he pursued a Doctorate of Theology at the Catholic University of Louvain in Belgium, and received his degree in 1976. Bustros then served for eleven years as director of the Saint Paul Institute of Philosophy and Theology at the Paulist Missionaries at Harissa.
During this period he also held an appointment as professor at Saint Joseph University in Beirut. Episcopate
He was ordained to the episcopate on November 27, 1988, in the Basilica of Saint Paul in Harissa, by Maximos V Hakim, assisted by Archbishops Zoghby and Joseph Raya.
He was enthroned as Eparch of Newton, Massachusetts at Annunciation Cathedral on August 18, 2004.
In June 2011 the Holy Synod of the Melkite Church elected Archbishop Cyril Bustros to the Metropolitan See of Beirut. Taking his place as eparch of the United States is Bishop Nicholas Samra.
He is a member of the Bustros family, a prominent clan in Lebanese society.