Education
Rahal studied at the Pontifical Lateran University in Rome and get a Doctor of Philosophy from the University Sargessa in Furn-El-Shebak (Lebanon) as Doctor of Canon law.
Rahal studied at the Pontifical Lateran University in Rome and get a Doctor of Philosophy from the University Sargessa in Furn-El-Shebak (Lebanon) as Doctor of Canon law.
Elias Rahal was ordained on June 28, 1970 by Melkite Paulist religious priests. At the Synod of Bishops of the Melkite Greek Catholic Church from 22 to 26 June 2004 Rahal was elected to succeed Cyril Salim Bustros as Archbishop of Baalbek. This choice was agreed by Pope Benedict XVI on 28 June 2004 and the Patriarch of Antioch, Gregory III Laham, Bachelor of Science consecrated him bishop.
Archbishops Cyril Salim Bustros, SMSP and Jean Mansour, SMSP were assisted co-consecrators.
Rahal was in October 2010 a participant in the Special Assembly of the Synod of Bishops for the Middle East.