Background
HAYEK, His Beatitude Ignace Antoine II was born on September 14, 1910. Son of Naum Hayek and Chafica Sciamsi.
HAYEK, His Beatitude Ignace Antoine II was born on September 14, 1910. Son of Naum Hayek and Chafica Sciamsi.
Seminaire Patriarcal, Charfe, Lebanon, Pontifical College, of Propaganda Fide, Rome, and Oriental Pontifical Institute, Rome.
Ordained priest 1933, successively or concurrently Director of School, Curate and Vicar-General, Aleppo. Archbishop of Aleppo 1959-1968. Syrian Patriarch of Antioch since 1968.