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Boulos Nassif Borkhoche(born Paul Victor Borkhoche, SMSP on 7 October 1932 in Joun, Lebanon) is a retired Archbishop of the Melkite Greek Catholic Archeparchy of Bosra and Hauran in Syria.
Life
Boulos Nassif Borkhoche comes from an old established and wealthy family in Joun. He was ordained to the priesthood on September 14, 1960 as Chaplain of the Missionary Society of Saint Paul.
On June 14, 1983, the Synod of Bishops of the Melkite Greek Catholic Church elected him as the successor to Archbishop Nicolas Naaman as Archbishop of Bosra and Hauran. The Patriarch of Antioch Archbishop Maximos V Hakim ordained him to the episcopate on July 3, 1983, together with the co-consecrators Archbishop Habib Bacha and Archbishop Joseph Raya.
Borkhoche was in October 2010 a participant in the Special Assembly of the Synod of Bishops on the Middle East. He was co-consekrator of the Archbishop Nikolaki Sawaf. On 15 September 2011 Pope Benedict XVI accepted his age-related withdrawal.