Career

Ordained to the priesthood on 30 May 1957 to the Maronite Catholic Eparchy of Sidon, Eid was named Archbishop of the Maronite Catholic Archeparchy of Damascus on 5 June 1999 by Pope John Paul World War II Maronite Patriarch of Antioch, Nasrallah Boutros Sfeir, gave him on November 20 of the same year the episcopal ordination. His co-consecrators were Tanios El Khoury, Eparch of Sidon, and Emile Eid, Vice-President of the Commission for the codification of the Eastern Churches" law. He retired on 25 September 2005. and in 2006 Pope Benedict XVI accepted his age-related withdrawal.