{"id":29413,"date":"2013-11-05T08:44:26","date_gmt":"2013-11-05T07:44:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.proterrasancta.org\/?p=29413"},"modified":"2021-12-17T10:18:32","modified_gmt":"2021-12-17T09:18:32","slug":"fra-georges-abu-khazen-named-apostolic-vicar-for-the-latins-roman-catholics-in-aleppo","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/preprod.proterrasancta.org\/en\/fra-georges-abu-khazen-named-apostolic-vicar-for-the-latins-roman-catholics-in-aleppo\/","title":{"rendered":"Fra Georges Abu Khazen named Apostolic Vicar for the Latins (Roman Catholics) in Aleppo"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>[From <a href=\"http:\/\/www.custodia.org\/default.asp?id=779&amp;id_n=23914\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Custodia.org<\/a>] On November 4th Pope Francis named<strong> Fra Georges Abu Khazen OFM<\/strong> Apostolic Vicar of <strong>Aleppo, Syria<\/strong> for the Latins (Roman Catholics). At the same time the news was announced, the Custos of the Holy Land sent all the friars of the Custody an official communique, rejoicing in the Holy See\u2019s recognition of the future bishop\u2019s merits.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe are certain that the Lord will enlighten him and grant him prudence to guide the flock that has been entrusted to him during such a difficult period in the land where he is called to serve,\u201d read the communique.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Fra Georges\u00a0has served the Custody in Egypt, the Holy Land and Lebanon, and has been serving in Syria since 2004<\/strong> as the priest of the Saint Francis of Aleppo parish, guardian of the city\u2019s Franciscan monastery, and Vicar-Delegate for the North. He has been the apostolic administrator \u201csede vacante et ad nutum Sanctae Sedis\u201d since Mgr. Giuseppe Nazzaro OFM, also a friar of the Custody and a former Custos, retired due to advanced age.<\/p>\n<p>Since the beginning of the war in Syria, Fra Georges has also been the coordinator of aide collected by ATS Pro Terra Sancta and its <a href=\"https:\/\/www.proterrasancta.org\/en\/project\/syria-aleppo-the-emergency-centre\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><strong>\u201cEmergency Syria\u201d<\/strong> <\/a>appeal. During the chapter last summer he and the other friars who came from Syria for the triennial chapter testified to the ways in which the fourteen friars of the Custody throughout Syria reinvented ways to serve the surrounding population, in spite of the many difficulties they encountered every day.<\/p>\n<p>We invite you to join in the sentiments that the Custos expressed at the end of his communique, \u201cWishing him all the Lord\u2019s blessings, I entrust him to your prayers so that you can accompany him during this important moment in his life,\u201d and to continue to pray for Syria and all of its inhabitants so that the players in the conflict can find the way to national reconciliation in justice and peace.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>[From Custodia.org] On November 4th Pope Francis named Fra Georges Abu Khazen OFM Apostolic Vicar of Aleppo, Syria for the Latins (Roman Catholics). 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