{"id":27324,"date":"2012-12-05T08:29:44","date_gmt":"2012-12-05T12:29:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/2012\/12\/patriarch-ignatius-iv-hazim-91\/"},"modified":"2013-10-17T09:26:49","modified_gmt":"2013-10-17T13:26:49","slug":"patriarch-ignatius-iv-hazim-91","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/2012\/12\/patriarch-ignatius-iv-hazim-91\/","title":{"rendered":"Patriarch Ignatius IV Hazim, 91, RIP"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><!--[if gte mso 9]><xml>\n<o:documentproperties>\n<o:template>Normal<\/o:template>\n<o:revision>0<\/o:revision>\n<o:totaltime>0<\/o:totaltime>\n<o:pages>1<\/o:pages>\n<o:words>106<\/o:words>\n<o:characters>606<\/o:characters>\n<o:company>Liturgy Traing Publ.<\/o:company>\n<o:lines>5<\/o:lines>\n<o:paragraphs>1<\/o:paragraphs>\n<o:characterswithspaces>744<\/o:characterswithspaces>\n<o:version>10.260<\/o:version>\n<\/o:documentproperties>\n<\/xml>< ![endif]--><!--[if gte mso 9]><xml>\n<w:worddocument>\n<w:zoom>0<\/w:zoom>\n<w:displayhorizontaldrawinggridevery>0<\/w:displayhorizontaldrawinggridevery>\n<w:displayverticaldrawinggridevery>0<\/w:displayverticaldrawinggridevery>\n<w:usemarginsfordrawinggridorigin><\/w:usemarginsfordrawinggridorigin>\n<\/w:worddocument>\n<\/xml>< ![endif]--><br \/>\n<!--StartFragment--><span style=\"font-size: 12.0pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; &lt;br \/&gt;\nmso-ansi-language: EN-US;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/Ignatius%20IV%20Hazim%20.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"mt-image-left\" style=\"float: left; margin: 0 20px 20px 0;\" alt=\"Ignatius IV Hazim .jpg\" src=\"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/assets_c\/2012\/12\/Ignatius IV Hazim -thumb-300x200-13367.jpg\" width=\"300\" height=\"200\" \/><\/a><\/span>Greek Orthodox Patriarch Ignatius IV Hazim, 91, died\u00a0today, Wednesday, at a Beirut hospital after suffering a stroke a day earlier.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<div>Born\u00a0in the village of Mhardey near Hama in Syria in 1921, Habib Hazim was the son of an\u00a0Arab Greek Orthodox family and was attracted to ecclesial ministry early in life.\u00a0After\u00a0finishing school in Hama, Hazim moved to Beirut where he studied literature and\u00a0started serving the Orthodox Church in Lebanon.<\/div>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<div>\u00a0Hazim helped found the global\u00a0Society of Orthodox Youth Organizations and he became a bishop in 1961 and in 1970 he was elected Orthodox\u00a0Metropolitan of the Syrian city of Latakia, a coastal city. Hazim was elected Greek Orthodox<\/div>\n<div>Patriarch of \u00a0Antioch and all the East in 1979, succeeding Patriarch Elias IV. The Patriarch of Antioch is the third most important See after the Patriarchates of Constantinople and Alexandria.<\/div>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<div>Eternal Memory.<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Greek Orthodox Patriarch Ignatius IV Hazim, 91, died\u00a0today, Wednesday, at a Beirut hospital after suffering a stroke a day earlier. &nbsp; Born\u00a0in the village of Mhardey near Hama in Syria in 1921, Habib Hazim was the son of an\u00a0Arab Greek Orthodox family and was attracted to ecclesial ministry early in life.\u00a0After\u00a0finishing school in Hama, Hazim &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/2012\/12\/patriarch-ignatius-iv-hazim-91\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Patriarch Ignatius IV Hazim, 91, RIP<\/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":[1712,2176],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27324"}],"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=27324"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27324\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":28813,"href":"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27324\/revisions\/28813"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=27324"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=27324"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=27324"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}