{"id":26171,"date":"2011-01-17T15:30:40","date_gmt":"2011-01-17T19:30:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/2011\/01\/maronite-patriarch-said-ready\/"},"modified":"2011-01-17T15:30:40","modified_gmt":"2011-01-17T19:30:40","slug":"maronite-patriarch-said-ready","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/2011\/01\/maronite-patriarch-said-ready\/","title":{"rendered":"Maronite Patriarch said ready to resign"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/Patriarch%20Nasrallah%20Peter%20Sfeir.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Patriarch Nasrallah Peter Sfeir.jpg\" src=\"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/assets_c\/2011\/01\/Patriarch Nasrallah Peter Sfeir-thumb-200x157-8353.jpg\" width=\"200\" height=\"157\" class=\"mt-image-left\" style=\"float: left; margin: 0 20px 20px 0;\" \/><\/a>Patriarch Nasrallah Peter Sfeir, 90, the 76th head of the Maronite Church is said to have submitted a resignation a few months ago to His Holiness, Pope Benedict XVI. <i><a href=\"http:\/\/www.dailystar.com.lb\/article.asp?edition_id=1&amp;categ_id=2&amp;article_id=123745#axzz1BJ7ifqU7\">The Daily Star<\/a><\/i> has stated this move of Sfeir&#8217;s, but the paper has several facts wrong, so the reliability of specifics is questionable.<\/p>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>His Beatitude will be 91 on May 15 and has led the Maronite Church since 1986: he&#8217;s been a priest for 60.5 years, a bishop for 49.5 years and patriarch for 25 years. Sfeir is also a cardinal of the Church since 1994.<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Patriarch Nasrallah Peter Sfeir, 90, the 76th head of the Maronite Church is said to have submitted a resignation a few months ago to His Holiness, Pope Benedict XVI. The Daily Star has stated this move of Sfeir&#8217;s, but the paper has several facts wrong, so the reliability of specifics is questionable. His Beatitude will &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/2011\/01\/maronite-patriarch-said-ready\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Maronite Patriarch said ready to resign<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[1712,1974,1846],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26171"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=26171"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26171\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=26171"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=26171"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=26171"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}