Archbishop Elias Nijmé, B.A. †

Deceased

Date	Age	Event	Title
16 Aug 1920		Born	Alep
20 Jul 1944	23.9	Ordained Priest	Priest of Ordre Basilien Alepin
16 Aug 1971	51.0	Appointed	Archbishop (Personal Title), Auxiliary of Antiochia {Antioch} (Melkite Greek), Syria
16 Aug 1971	51.0	Appointed	Titular Archbishop of Palmyra dei Greco-Melkiti
5 Sep 1971	51.1	Ordained Bishop	Titular Archbishop of Palmyra dei Greco-Melkiti
7 Feb 1978	57.5	Appointed	Archbishop of Tripoli del Libano {Tarabulus} (Melkite Greek), Lebanon
5 Aug 1995	75.0	Retired	Archbishop of Tripoli del Libano {Tarabulus} (Melkite Greek), Lebanon
6 Nov 1998	78.2	Died	Archbishop Emeritus of Tripoli del Libano {Tarabulus} (Melkite Greek), Lebanon

a priest for 54.3 years a bishop for 27.2 years	Principal Consecrator: Patriarch Maximos V (George) Hakim † Principal Co-Consecrators: Archbishop Athanasios Toutoungi † Archbishop Grégoire Haddad
Episcopal Lineage / Apostolic Succession: Archbishop Elias Nijmé, B.A. † (1971) Patriarch Maximos V (George) Hakim † (1943) Patriarch Cyril IX Mogabgab † (1899) Patriarch Peter IV Géraigiry †	Principal Co-Consecrator of: Bishop Georges Kahhalé Zouhaïraty, B.A.