Died 7 July 1998 | ||
Ignace Abdo Khalifé, SJ (born on 10 May 1914 in Wady Chahrour, Lebanon – died on 7 July 1998) was the first Eparch of the Maronite Catholic Eparchy of Saint Maron of Sydney in Australia.
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Life
Ignace Khalife joined the SJ and received on August 24, 1943 his ordination to the priesthood.
On 20 March 1970 he was appointed by Pope Paul VI Auxiliary bishop and Patriarchal Vicar of Antioch and Titular bishop (pro hac vice) of Apamea in Syria of the Maronites. Maronite Patriarch of Antioch, Cardinal Paul Peter Meouchi ordained him bishop on 5 April 1970 and his co-consecrators were Nasrallah Boutros Sfeir, Titular bishop of the Tarsus of the Maronites and Joseph Salamé, Archeparch of Aleppo in Syria.
On June 25, 1973 Khalife was appointed archbishop (pro hac vice) of the Maronite Eparchy of Saint Maron of Sydney.
On November 23, 1990, Pope John Paul II accepted his age-related resignation. He was co-consecrator of the Eparch Joseph Merhi, MLM as Bishop of Cairo.
On July 7, 1998 Eparch Khalifé died at the age of 74.
Publications
Khalife has published several articles and papers, in addition, he wrote articles for the collective work of the Saint Joseph University.