Paul Yazigi

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Metropolitan
Paul (Yazigi)
Metropolitan Yazigi (right)
Born1959 (age 64–65)
Latakia, Syria
Other namesBulus Yaziji
OccupationMetropolitan bishop
Known forAbduction and detention by Syrian militants

Paul (Yazigi) of Aleppo (

archdiocese of Aleppo, Syria, under the Greek Orthodox Patriarchate of Antioch
.

Life

Born in 1959 in the coastal city of

University of Thessaloniki, gaining a Bachelor's degree in 1989, a Master's degree in 1992 and a Doctor of Philosophy. He also studied at Mount Athos.[citation needed
]

Paul was ordained to the priesthood in 1992 and was Dean of the Institute of Theology from 1994 to 2000 when he was elected Metropolitan of Aleppo, being enthroned in Aleppo on October 22. He succeeded Youssef (Elias), bishop of Aleppo from 1971 to 2000. His brother is John X, currently the Greek Orthodox Patriarch of Antioch.[citation needed]

Kidnapping

In 2013, Paul, along with

Syrian Civil war; his whereabouts was unknown for several years.[1] The Rewards for Justice Program offers $5 million for information on the ISIS network responsible for kidnapping Christian clerics: Maher Mahfouz, Michael Kayyal, Yohanna Ibrahim and Paolo Dall'Oglio, as well as Boulos Yazigi.[2]

In January 2020, an investigative report published by Mansur Salib, a self-described "Syrian citizen in the United States", alleged that both bishops were killed in 2016.[3]

In October 2021, the Antiochian Synod in Balamand made the decision to transfer him to the honorary diocese of Diyarbakir due to his remaining in captivity.[4]

See also

Gallery

  • Church of the Dormition of Our Lady Cathedral
    Church of the Dormition of Our Lady Cathedral
  • A narrow street in the Christian quarter (Aleppo)
    A narrow street in the Christian quarter (Aleppo)
  • Banner in support of the kidnapped bishops in front of the Monastery of Saint Mark, Jerusalem, in 2013.
    Banner in support of the kidnapped bishops in front of the
    Monastery of Saint Mark, Jerusalem
    , in 2013.

References

  1. ^ News Regarding the April 2013 Abductions of Bishops in Syria.
  2. ^ "ISIS Kidnapping Networks". Rewards for Justice. Retrieved 1 August 2019.
  3. ^ "Abducted Syrian hierarchs killed in 2016, according to new investigative report". OrthoChristian.Com. 2020-01-16. Retrieved 2020-01-17., citing Fides, Agenzia (2020-01-17). "ASIA/SYRIA - Journalistic investigation". Agenzia Fides. Retrieved 2020-01-17. Among other things, the reconstruction claims - by presenting blurred clues or by aggregating information without objective evidence - that the two Archbishops were tortured, and that one of them, in 2015, was in a health facility in Antioch, the Antakya Devlet Hastanesi, in the Turkish province of Hatay. In the final section, the investigation claims that the two bishops were allegedly killed and buried in an unspecified place in December 2016, while areas east of Aleppo were about to be recaptured by the Syrian army. In conclusion, the investigation published on medium.com may be useful to clarify details of the dynamics of the kidnapping and the early stages of the segregation of the two metropolitans, but in many passages it does not seem to provide certain elements useful to definitively clarify what was the fate of Boulos Yazigi and Mar Gregorios Yohanna Ibrahim
  4. ^ NewsRoom. "Bishop Ephraim Maalouli: Metropolitan of Aleppo, Alexandretta and their Dependencies | Orthodox Times (en)". orthodoxtimes.com/. Retrieved 2021-10-07.
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