{"id":26314,"date":"2011-03-15T08:12:10","date_gmt":"2011-03-15T12:12:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/2011\/03\/new-maronite-patriarch-beshara\/"},"modified":"2011-03-15T08:12:10","modified_gmt":"2011-03-15T12:12:10","slug":"new-maronite-patriarch-beshara","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/2011\/03\/new-maronite-patriarch-beshara\/","title":{"rendered":"B&eacute;shara Ra&iuml; elected new Maronite Patriarch"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/Beshara%20Rai.jpeg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Beshara Rai.jpeg\" src=\"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/assets_c\/2011\/03\/Beshara Rai-thumb-250x218-8780.jpeg\" width=\"250\" height=\"218\" class=\"mt-image-left\" style=\"float: left; margin: 0 20px 20px 0;\" \/><\/a>Only 20 years junior to the out-going patriarch, His Beatitude Nasrallah Peter Sfeir, the Maronite bishops elected today <b>Bishop B&eacute;shara Ra&iuml;<\/b>, 71, as the new patriarch. He&#8217;s &nbsp;77th patriarch of the Maronites;&nbsp;Ra&iuml;&nbsp;takes up the See of St Peter (Peter&#8217;s first diocese before moving to Rome), adopting the name Peter. He will be known as &#8220;His Beatitude, Patriarch&nbsp;<b>B&eacute;shara Peter Ra&iuml;.<\/b>&#8220;<\/p>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>He succeeds Patriarch Sfeir after his 25 years of service. It is expected that Patriarch&nbsp;<b>B&eacute;shara Peter<\/b> will be enthroned on 25 March.<\/p>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>I am happy for His Beatitude&#8217;s new opportunity to serve the Church. I met him a number of years ago and he&#8217;s a wonderful person.<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>His Beatitude has been a priest for 43 years and a bishop for nearly 25 years and since 1990 he&#8217;s been bishop of Jbeil (Byblos). In Lebanon, the Maronite Christians number about a third of the 4 million population.<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Only 20 years junior to the out-going patriarch, His Beatitude Nasrallah Peter Sfeir, the Maronite bishops elected today Bishop B&eacute;shara Ra&iuml;, 71, as the new patriarch. He&#8217;s &nbsp;77th patriarch of the Maronites;&nbsp;Ra&iuml;&nbsp;takes up the See of St Peter (Peter&#8217;s first diocese before moving to Rome), adopting the name Peter. He will be known as &#8220;His &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/2011\/03\/new-maronite-patriarch-beshara\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">B&eacute;shara Ra&iuml; elected new Maronite Patriarch<\/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":[1712,1974,1846,2708],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26314"}],"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=26314"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26314\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=26314"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=26314"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=26314"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}