Elias Peter Hoayek

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Elias Peter Hoayek (

Patriarch of Antioch for the Maronites, the largest Catholic community in the Levant
, from 1898 to 1931 when he died.

Early life

Elias

Catholic priest and returned to Lebanon. Upon his return, he taught theology at his old school the Seminary of St. John Maroun. He was appointed secretary and moved to the patriarchal residence in 1872, where he remained until 1898 when he was elected Patriarch. He was consecrated titular bishop of Arca on December 14, 1889[2] by Patriarch Paul Peter Massad
.

As vicar of Patriarch John Peter El Hajj, he was commissioned to raise the necessary funds for the construction of a residence to the Maronites in Jerusalem and for the construction of the new Maronite seminary in Rome, which opened in 1893. In 1895, Hoayek founded the Congregation of the Maronite Sisters of the Holy Family.[3]

Becoming Patriarch

Patriarch Hoayek in 1899

The previous patriarch, John el Hajj, died on Christmas Eve in 1898; Hoayek was requested to return to Lebanon from a trip to Rome. On January 6, 1899, he was elected Patriarch and, in the consistory of June 19, 1899, Hoayek was ratified as the choice of Maronite bishops by Pope Leo XIII, who granted him the pallium.[4]

Hoayek adopted the middle name Peter (Boutros) to signify him being the successor to Peter, first Bishop of Antioch.

Patriarch Hoayek's residence was simple, consisting of three rooms: a bedroom/office, a reception room and a chapel. He was known to particularly revere the readings of the confessions of Augustine of Hippo, the Eternal Maxims and the Imitation of Christ.[citation needed]

Among his first acts as patriarch was the construction of a new residence in

Mary
, he ordered the construction of the statue of the Madonna in Harissa that still dominates the region.

Support for the diaspora

He was behind the creation of a Patriarchal Vicariate in Cairo, Egypt in 1904, the first Maronite ecclesiastical structure after 1736. He was the founder of the church in Cyprus, delegating Shikrallah Khoury and Peter Chebly. He was the founder of the independent dioceses in the United States of America and in Argentina in 1920.

World War I

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Kafno
Kafno

The First World War saw a lot of persecution of the Christians in the Middle East.[

Jamal Pasha
, Ottoman military governor took steps to exile Hoayek because of his relations with France. In 1915, the blockade as well as a large locust infestation had resulted in diminished food supplies. While the granaries are almost empty, the Ottoman Empire requisitions Lebanese foodstuffs. As a result, a third of the Lebanese population died of starvation. This situation continued until 1919. The Patriarch received funds from Lebanese Diaspora and the French government. Again, Jamal Pasha attempted to exile the Patriarch.

The HM British army entered Damascus while the Ottoman (and their German allies) retreated to the north. This ended four hundred years of Ottoman rule in Lebanon. A transitional governance body was installed by the allied British and French forces.

Peace Congress in Versailles

In 1919, Patriarch Hoayek headed a second Lebanese delegation at the

Paris Peace Conference
. Prince Faisal had hoped for an Arab kingdom to encompass Lebanon, Syria, Iraq, Palestine, and the Arabian Peninsula. Hoayek fought to be able to see Lebanon free from the Ottoman Empire and had no desire to see it become part of an Arab monarchy.

The Lebanese delegation led by Hoayek presented the Lebanese aspirations as follows:

  • The extension of the frontiers of Lebanon to include the cities of Beirut, Tyre, Sidon, Tripoli and the districts of Akkar, Beqaa, and Southern Lebanon. These cities and districts were natural parts of Lebanon but were administratively separated by the Ottoman rule.
  • The recognition of Lebanon's full independence
  • French protectorate over Lebanon.

On October 25, he presented the assembly of the

Peace Congress
with this memorandum.

Independence of Lebanon

Proclamation of the state of Greater Lebanon

Mediterranean sea in the west. The new entity under French mandate was initially called The State of Greater Lebanon
.

Death

Patriarch Elias Hoayek died on December 24, 1931, in Bkerké.

Sainthood

Pope Francis authorized the promulgation of decrees on the heroic virtues of Patriarch Elias Howayek, declaring him Venerable on July 5, 2019.[6][7]

Quotation

Hoyek wrote: "Both national feeling and religion make it an obligation for you to respect and love everybody whatever may be his belief. Reason leads you to fraternize with the person you live with under the same sky and on the same land." (Hoayek, Al-Zakhair Al-Saniyyat, Jounieh, 1931 p. 501)

See also

Sources

  • Biography of the patriarch Elias Hoayek by HARFOÛCHE, P. Ibrâhîm, Dalâ' it Al 'inâya el-Samdanyat, Lebanese Jounieh, Printing works Missionaries Maronites; 1934.
  • Inventing Lebanon: Nationalism and the State Under the Mandate - by Kais M. Firro.
  • The Maronite Patriarch Elias Butrus al-Howayyek and the Establishment of Greater Lebanon - by Samawil Bulus, Haifa University, 1987.
  • Pierre Dib, v. Maronite (Eglise), in Dictionnaire de Théologie Catholique, Tome Dixième, première partie, Paris 1928, coll. 110–112.
  • Zoghbi, Marie-Roger (1991). Une gloire du Liban: Le patriarche Elias Hoyek. Araya, Líbano: Imprimerie catholique.

Notes

  1. ^ "Patriarch Elias Pierre Hoyek (Hoayek)". Catholic-Hierarchy.org. David M. Cheney. Retrieved 23 January 2015.
  2. ^ gcatholic.org
  3. ^ Gomes, Robin (6 July 2019). "A new saint for the Church and Fulton Sheen soon to be Blessed". Vatican News. Archived from the original on 2019-07-07. Retrieved 15 July 2019.
  4. ^ vatican.va
  5. ^ [Papal brief, Supreme of 26 January 1906.]
  6. ^ ""Fulton Sheen on road to sainthood"". Independent Catholic News. July 7, 2019. Archived from the original on 2019-07-09. Retrieved 15 July 2019.
  7. ^ De Sousa, Matthew (July 9, 2019). ""Somascan priest who risked life among those decreed Servant of God"". The Catholic Weekly. Archived from the original on 15 July 2019. Retrieved 15 July 2019.

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