{"id":27832,"date":"2013-07-08T14:24:21","date_gmt":"2013-07-08T18:24:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/2013\/07\/father-abadallah-zaidan-mlm-ne\/"},"modified":"2013-10-18T10:37:23","modified_gmt":"2013-10-18T14:37:23","slug":"father-abadallah-zaidan-mlm-ne","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/2013\/07\/father-abadallah-zaidan-mlm-ne\/","title":{"rendered":"Abdallah Zaidan is new bishop for Maronite Eparchy of Our Lady of Lebanon"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/Zaidan.jpeg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"mt-image-left\" style=\"float: left; margin: 0 20px 20px 0;\" alt=\"Zaidan.jpeg\" src=\"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/assets_c\/2013\/07\/Zaidan-thumb-184x274-14769.jpeg\" width=\"184\" height=\"274\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Today, the Holy Father, Pope Francis, has accepted the resignation of\u00a0Bishop Robert J. Shaheen from the\u00a0pastoral governance of the\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.eparchy.org\/ourladyoflebanon\/\">Eparchy of Our Lady of Lebanon of Los Angeles<\/a>,\u00a0and has appointed as Bishop of the same Eparchy the Reverend Father Abdallah Elias Zaidan, MLM, 50, up until now Rector of\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.ourladyofmountlebanon.com\">Our Lady of Mt. Lebanon-St. Peter Maronite Cathedral<\/a>\u00a0in Los Angeles. He was ordained a priest on 20 July 1986.<\/p>\n<p>Bishop Robert Joseph Shaheen was the first native American (born in Danbury, CT) to be nominated bishop for the Maronites in the USA, and the second bishop of of the Eparchy of Our Lady of Lebanon of Los Angeles. He was ordained a priest 1964 and a bishop on 15 February 2001.<\/p>\n<p>Bishop-elect Zaidan will be ordained in Lebanon and\u00a0later enthroned\u00a0in the United States.<\/p>\n<p>May God grant Bishop-elect Abdallah many years of faithful service.<\/p>\n<p>Our Lady of Lebanon, intercede for the Eparchy.<\/p>\n<p>Saint Maron, pray for us.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Today, the Holy Father, Pope Francis, has accepted the resignation of\u00a0Bishop Robert J. Shaheen from the\u00a0pastoral governance of the\u00a0Eparchy of Our Lady of Lebanon of Los Angeles,\u00a0and has appointed as Bishop of the same Eparchy the Reverend Father Abdallah Elias Zaidan, MLM, 50, up until now Rector of\u00a0Our Lady of Mt. Lebanon-St. Peter Maronite Cathedral\u00a0in &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/2013\/07\/father-abadallah-zaidan-mlm-ne\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Abdallah Zaidan is new bishop for Maronite Eparchy of Our Lady of Lebanon<\/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":[3074,3241],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27832"}],"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=27832"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27832\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":28879,"href":"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27832\/revisions\/28879"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=27832"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=27832"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=27832"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}