Archbishop Jean Benjamin Sleiman, O.C.D.

Archbishop of Baghdad, Iraq

Events

Date	Age	Event	Title
30 Jun 1946		Born
8 Dec 1973	27.4	Ordained Priest	Priest of Order of Discalced Carmelites
29 Nov 2000	54.4	Appointed	Archbishop of Baghdad, Iraq
20 Jan 2001	54.5	Ordained Bishop	Archbishop of Baghdad, Iraq

MicroData Summary
Jean Benjamin Sleiman
Archbishop Jean Benjamin Sleiman O.C.D.
(born 30 Jun 1946)
Archbishop of Baghdad

Ad Limina - January 2008: Bishop
Ad Limina - March 2018: Bishop

Event Place
Birth Place Ghalboun

Please contact the Archbishop through the Archdiocese of Baghdad.

a priest for years
a bishop for years

Principal Consecrator:
Archbishop Antonio Maria Vegliò
Titular Archbishop of Aeclanum
Principal Co-Consecrators:
Archbishop Paul Dahdah, O.C.D.
Titular Archbishop of Arae in Numidia
Bishop Paul Bassim, O.C.D. †
Titular Bishop of Laodicea ad Libanum

Episcopal Lineage / Apostolic Succession:

Archbishop Antonio Maria Vegliò (1985)
Titular Archbishop of Aeclanum
Agostino Cardinal Casaroli † (1967)
Cardinal-Bishop of Porto e Santa Rufina
Pope Paul VI (1954)
(St. Giovanni Battista Enrico Antonio Maria Montini †)
Eugène-Gabriel-Gervais-Laurent Cardinal Tisserant † (1937)
Cardinal-Bishop of Porto e Santa Rufina
Eugenio Maria Giuseppe Giovanni Cardinal Pacelli † (1917)
Cardinal-Priest of Santi Giovanni e Paolo
Pope Benedict XV (1907)
(Giacomo Giambattista della Chiesa †)
Pope Pius X (1884)
(St. Giuseppe Melchiorre Sarto †)
Lucido Maria Cardinal Parocchi † (1871)
Cardinal-Priest of Santa Croce in Gerusalemme
Costantino Cardinal Patrizi Naro † (1828)
Cardinal-Bishop of Ostia (e Velletri)
Carlo Cardinal Odescalchi, S.J. † (1823)
Cardinal-Priest of Santi XII Apostoli
Giulio Maria Cardinal della Somaglia † (1788)
Cardinal-Bishop of Ostia (e Velletri)
Hyacinthe-Sigismond (Jean-François) Cardinal Gerdil, B. † (1777)
Cardinal-Priest of Santa Cecilia
Marcantonio Cardinal Colonna (Jr.) † (1762)
Cardinal-Priest of Santa Maria della Pace
Pope Clement XIII (1743)
(Carlo della Torre Rezzonico †)
Pope Benedict XIV (1724)
(Prospero Lorenzo Lambertini †)
Pope Benedict XIII (1675)
(Pietro Francesco (Vincenzo Maria) Orsini de Gravina, O.P. †)
Paluzzo Cardinal Paluzzi Altieri Degli Albertoni † (1666)
Chamberlain (Camerlengo) of the Apostolic Chamber
Ulderico Cardinal Carpegna † (1630)
Cardinal-Priest of Santa Maria in Trastevere
Luigi Cardinal Caetani † (1622)
Cardinal-Priest of Santa Pudenziana
Ludovico Cardinal Ludovisi † (1621)
Archbishop of Bologna
Archbishop Galeazzo Sanvitale † (1604)
Archbishop Emeritus of Bari (-Canosa)
Girolamo Cardinal Bernerio, O.P. † (1586)
Cardinal-Bishop of Albano
Giulio Antonio Cardinal Santorio † (1566)
Cardinal-Priest of San Bartolomeo all’Isola
Scipione Cardinal Rebiba †
Titular Patriarch of Constantinople

Principal Co-Consecrator of:
Archbishop Yousif Thomas Mirkis, O.P. (2014)
Archbishop Habib Hormiz Jajou Al Nawfali (2014)
Bishop Saad Sirop (2014)

External Link(s):

VIAF: 13546906
WikiData: Q1685365

Source(s):

ob/c2+: Le Petit Episcopologe, Issue 162, Number 13,887

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