Ignatius Ghattas (25 December 1920 — 11 October 1992) was a bishop of the Melkite Greek Catholic Church. He served as Eparch of Newton from 1990 until his death.[1]
Bishop Ghattas was born in Nazareth in 1920 and raised in Maaloul.[2] He entered Holy Saviour monastery in Saida, Lebanon following his primary education and professed his religious vows in 1939. He was ordained a priest of the Basilian Salvatorian Order in 1946.[1] Following his ordination he taught Greek, Latin, English, French and mathematics.[3]
In 1952, he went to the United States to serve as assistant pastor of St. Elias parish in Cleveland, Ohio, and was appointed pastor in 1955.[4] Later he was elected bishop by the Holy Synod of the Melkite Church in July 1989 and approved by the Holy See on December 11. He was consecrated bishop on February 23, 1990, succeeding Archbishop Joseph Tawil as eparch.[5]
Bishop Ignatius Ghattas founded the Order of Saint Nicholas in 1991, a regional lay order attached to the Melkite Greek Catholic Eparchy of Newton.[6]
He died in Cleveland, Ohio in 1992, aged 71.[7]
^ abCatholic Hierarchy website, retrieved 5 November 2007
^Memorial tribute to Bishop Ghattas Archived 2011-07-17 at the Wayback Machine, retrieved 30 March 2008
^"Archbishop Ignatius Ghattas, 71; spiritual leader of Melkites in US". The Boston Globe, 16 October 1992
^St. Elias Church website Archived 2004-09-11 at the Wayback Machine, retrieved 5 November 2007
^Catholic Near East Welfare Association news item, "New Melkite Eparch", 1 April 1990[permanent dead link]. Note that the Eparch of Newton normally holds the title of Bishop; Abp. Tawil had had the personal title of Archbishop due to his prior service in another position.
^"» the Order of St. Nicholas".
^"OBITUARY for Ignatius Ghattas, Eparch of Newton". The Boston Herald. October 16, 1992. p. 055. Archived from the original on 2012-10-19. Retrieved 2008-02-23.
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