Ignatius IV of Antioch

Ignatius IV Hazim
إغناطيوس الرابع هزيم
Ignatius IV Hazim ; إغناطيوس الرابع هزيم
St. Sergius Orthodox Theological Institute of Paris, France

Patriarch Ignatius IV (

Greek Orthodox Church of Antioch and All The East from 1979 to 2012.^[1]

Life

Habib Hazim was born on April 4, 1920,

dean. As Dean he sought to provide the Patriarchate with responsible leaders who had received a good spiritual and intellectual training and who were witnesses to an awakened and deeply personal faith.^[4]

While his native language was

Patriarchate of Antioch

. The movement worked at the heart of the Church, helping ordinary believers to rediscover the personal and communal meaning of the Eucharist through a practice of frequent Communion, which had become extremely rare. Following on from this, in 1953 he helped to found Syndesmos, the world fellowship of Orthodox Youth and Theological Schools.

Ordination and episcopacy

He was

Ecumenical Patriarchs of Constantinople and Alexandria.^[4]

During an official visit to the patriarch's residence in May 2010, Russian Federation President Dmitry Medvedev awarded the Antiochian Orthodox patriarch the Russian Order of Friendship.^[5]

On December 5, 2012 he died in St. George's Hospital in Beirut, Lebanon following a stroke.^[6]^[7] His death was reported to and published exclusively via the Syrian state news agency SANA.^[6] Patriarch Ignatius IV of Antioch did not support the Syrian rebel uprising of 2011-2012 and called for a peaceful political dialogue.^[6] He was buried in Syria.^[6]

References

^ Website of the Byzantine Orthodox Patriarchate of Antioch, Antiochian Orthodox Church Archived 2009-06-21 at the Wayback Machine, Retrieved 5 Dec 2012
^ Asia News website:SYRIA December 5 2012
^ Huffington post website December 5 2012
^ ^a ^b "St George of Boston website: biography" (PDF). Archived from the original (PDF) on 2018-07-18. Retrieved 2010-12-07.
^ "President of Russia". Eng.news.kremlin.ru. 2010-05-11. Retrieved 2010-12-07.
^ ^a ^b ^c ^d "Greek Orthodox Patriarch of Syria Ignatius IV dies". BBC News. 2012-12-05.
^ "Patriarch Hazim is dead". tayyar.org. 2012-12-05. Archived from the original on 2012-12-07. Retrieved 2012-12-05.

Eastern Orthodox Church titles
Preceded by Elias IV Muawad	Eastern Orthodox Patriarch of Antioch 1979–2012	Succeeded by John X Yaziji

[1] Website of the Byzantine Orthodox Patriarchate of Antioch, Antiochian Orthodox Church Archived 2009-06-21 at the Wayback Machine, Retrieved 5 Dec 2012

[2] Asia News website:SYRIA December 5 2012

[3] Huffington post website December 5 2012

[stgeorgeofboston1-4] "St George of Boston website: biography" (PDF). Archived from the original (PDF) on 2018-07-18. Retrieved 2010-12-07.

[5] "President of Russia". Eng.news.kremlin.ru. 2010-05-11. Retrieved 2010-12-07.

[Patriarch_of_Syria_dies-6] "Greek Orthodox Patriarch of Syria Ignatius IV dies". BBC News. 2012-12-05.

[7] "Patriarch Hazim is dead". tayyar.org. 2012-12-05. Archived from the original on 2012-12-07. Retrieved 2012-12-05.

[note_n0-8] The ROC severed full communion with the Ecumenical Patriarchate in 2018, and later severed full communion with the primates of the Church of Greece, the Patriarchate of Alexandria, and the Church of Cyprus in 2020.

[note_n1-9] ^ ^a ^b ^c ^d ^e ^f ^g ^h Autocephaly or autonomy is not universally recognized.

[note_n3-10] UOC-MP was moved to formally cut ties with the ROC as of May 27th 2022.

[note_n2-11] Semi-autonomous part of the Russian Orthodox Church whose autonomy is not universally recognized.

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