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Joseph Mahfouz, OLM (born on 20 February 1932 in Ghadir, Lebanon - died on 25 August 2010, Ghadir, Lebanon) was a clergyman of the Maronite rite and eparch of the Maronite Catholic Eparchy of Our Lady of Lebanon of São Paulo. He was the third eparch of the Maronite Church in Brazil.
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Biography
Joseph Mahfouz joined the Congregation of the OLM and received on 29 June 1960 the ordination to the priesthood. Pope John Paul II appointed him on June 9, 1990 Archbishop of the Eparchy of the Our Lady of Lebanon in São Paulo. Maronite Patriarch of Antioch, Nasrallah Boutros Sfeir gave him on 12 August of the same year the episcopal ordination. His co-consecrators were Bishops Roland Aboujaoudé, Maronite auxiliary bishop of Antioch and Bechara Boutros al-Rahi, OMM, future Maronite Patriarch of Antioch. Mahfouz resigned as Bishop of Our Lady of Lebanon in São Paulo on 14 October 2006. He died of cancer and was buried in the cemetery Nisbei Ghosta in Lebanon.