Nikolaki Sawaf

Nikolaki Sawaf[1] (born on 8 February 1943 in Aleppo, Syria) since 2000 is the current Archbishop of the Melkite Greek Catholic Archeparchy of Latakia.

Life

Nikolaki Sawaf was on April 15, 1968 ordained priest. On 14 January 2000, Sawaf was appointed and succeeded Fares Maakaroun as Archbishop of Latakia. Archbishop Boulos Nassif Borkhoche of Bosra and Hauran consacrated him as bishop and his co-consecrators were Archbishop Jean-Clément Jeanbart of Aleppo and Archbishop Fares Maakaroun of Nossa Senhora do Paraíso em São Paulo in Brazil on March 4, 2000.

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