Career
Youssef Anis Abi Aad joined the Prado Secular Institute and received on 18 June 1966 his ordination to the priesthood. Pope John Paul II appointed him on 7 June 1997 to the Maronite Archbishopric of Aleppo. The Maronite Patriarch of Antioch and all the East, Cardinal Nasrallah Boutros Sfeir, gave him on 1 November of the same year the episcopal ordination.
His co-consecrators were Bechara Boutros al-Rahi, OMM, Bishop of Jbeil and present Maronite Patriarch of Antioch, and Paul Youssef Matar, Archbishop of Beirut.