Career
Georges Bacouni was consecrated by Archbishop Habib Bacha, SMSP, of Beirut and Jbeil on 30 July 1995 as diocesan priest. On 22 June 2005 he was appointed successor to Jean Assaad Haddad Archbishop of Tyre in Lebanon and on 27 November 2005 by the Patriarch of Antioch Gregory III Laham, Bachelor of Science was consecrated bishop. His co-consecrators were Archbishop Jean Assaad Haddad (its predecessor) and Archbishop Joseph Kallas of Beirut and Jbeil SMSP. On June 21, 2014, he was named by Patriarch Gregory III Laham in accordance with the Melkite Synod Archbishop of the Melkite Greek Catholic Archeparchy of Akka.
His conclusion was that celibacy for priests in the Latin rite was always not defined as church discipline and theological or spiritual issue.
Finally, the exemplary life of married or celibate priests in their communities, the knowledge of theology, preaching the gospel and the celebration of the sacraments became most important to him. As a delegate to the Special Assembly of the Synod of Bishops (Catholic) for the in October 2010, he commented in the final bulletin.
But, he stresses, we must be able to keep the young people in their home countries.
