Background
Ghattas, Ignatius was born on December 25, 1920 in Nazareth, Israel.
Ghattas, Ignatius was born on December 25, 1920 in Nazareth, Israel.
Educated, Holy Savior Seminary, Saida, Lebanon.
He served as Eparch of Newton from 1990 until his death. He entered Holy Saviour monastery in Saida, Lebanon following his primary education and professed his religious vows in 1939. He was ordained a priest of the Basilian Salvatorian Order in 1946.
Following his ordination he taught Greek, Latin, English, French and mathematics.
In 1952, he went to the United States to serve as assistant pastor of Saint Elias parish in Cleveland, Ohio, and was appointed pastor in 1955. Later he was elected bishop by the Holy Synod of the Melkite Church in July 1989 and approved by the Holy See on December 11.
He was consecrated bishop on February 23, 1990, succeeding Archbishop Joseph Tawil as eparch. He died in Cleveland, Ohio in 1992, aged 71.