{"id":34642,"date":"2017-06-21T07:00:38","date_gmt":"2017-06-21T11:00:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/?p=34642"},"modified":"2018-07-14T08:27:27","modified_gmt":"2018-07-14T12:27:27","slug":"joseph-absi-new-melkite-patriarch","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/2017\/06\/joseph-absi-new-melkite-patriarch\/","title":{"rendered":"Joseph Absi new Melkite Patriarch"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/06\/Patriarch-Joseph.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-34643 alignleft\" src=\"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/06\/Patriarch-Joseph-214x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"214\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/06\/Patriarch-Joseph-214x300.jpg 214w, https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/06\/Patriarch-Joseph-768x1078.jpg 768w, https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/06\/Patriarch-Joseph-730x1024.jpg 730w, https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/06\/Patriarch-Joseph.jpg 1026w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 214px) 100vw, 214px\" \/><\/a>Archbishop Joseph Absi, Patriarchal Vicar for Damascus, has been elected as the new Melkite Patriarch. Axios!\u202c<\/p>\n<p>His Beatitude succeeds Patriarch Gregory.<\/p>\n<p>The new Patriarch celebrated his 71st birthday yesterday. He is 44 years a priest and 15 years a bishop and a member of the Melkite Paulist Order.<\/p>\n<p>His Beatitude is an American citizen, since 1990. His mother and older brother live in California.<\/p>\n<p>Eis poll\u00e1 eti D\u00e9spota!<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/06\/some-Melkite-synod-June-21-2017.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-34644\" src=\"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/06\/some-Melkite-synod-June-21-2017-300x169.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"169\" srcset=\"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/06\/some-Melkite-synod-June-21-2017-300x169.jpg 300w, https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/06\/some-Melkite-synod-June-21-2017-768x432.jpg 768w, https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/06\/some-Melkite-synod-June-21-2017.jpg 960w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Archbishop Joseph Absi, Patriarchal Vicar for Damascus, has been elected as the new Melkite Patriarch. Axios!\u202c His Beatitude succeeds Patriarch Gregory. The new Patriarch celebrated his 71st birthday yesterday. He is 44 years a priest and 15 years a bishop and a member of the Melkite Paulist Order. His Beatitude is an American citizen, since &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/2017\/06\/joseph-absi-new-melkite-patriarch\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Joseph Absi new Melkite 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":[32239,2477,1846],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34642"}],"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=34642"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34642\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":35157,"href":"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34642\/revisions\/35157"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=34642"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=34642"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=34642"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}