My pick for "Glory of the Olives"
Don't know anything else about him.
But he's the only Arab Cardinal.
Could have a similar effect on a trip to Cairo or Damascus as JPII had on Poland.
Cardinal Daoud
Name: H.E. Ignace Moussa I Card. DAOUD
Position: Prefect of the Congregation for the Oriental Churches
Age: 74 (Born Thursday, September 18, 1930)
From:Syria
Cardinal since: Wednesday, February 21, 2001
Cardinal Ignace Moussa I Daoud, Patriarch emeritus of Antioch for Syrians, Prefect of the Congregation for the Oriental Churches and Grand Chancellor of the Pontifical Oriental Institute was born on 18 September 1930 in Meskaneh, Syria. He was ordained on 17 October 1954 and holds a licentiate in canon law from the Pontifical Lateran University, Rome.
On 2 July 1977 he was elected by the Syrian Patriarchal Synod as Bishop of Cairo, Egypt, and ordained on 18 September. He was a member of the Commission for the Revision of the Eastern Code of Canon Law and chaired the commission that translated the Code of Canons of the Eastern Churches into Arabic.
On 1 July 1994 he was promoted to Archbishop of Homs for Syrians, Syria.
On 13 October 1998 he was elected Patriarch of Antioch for Syrians and enthroned on 25 October. On 20 October 1998 he obtained the ecclesiatica communio.
On 25 November 2000 he was appointed Prefect of the Congregation for the Oriental Churches.
Patriarch emeritus of Antioch for Syrians, resigned 8 January 2001.
Created and proclaimed Cardinal by John Paul II in the consistory of 21 February 2001.
Curial membership:
»Doctrine of the Faith, Causes of Saints (congregation)
»Christian Unity, Legislative Texts (council)
»Special Council for Lebanon of the General Secretariat of the Synod of Bishops
Translated from French from another site:
Cardinal Ignace Foamed II Daoud, the highly skilled patriarch of Antioche for Syrians, the prefect of the Congregation for the Eastern Churches and he is the large Chancellor of the Eastern Pontifical Institute.
He was born on September 18, 1930 in Maskané, village close to Homs in Syria. He has two brothers and three sisters, all grooms. His mother Kahla Elias Dabbas is still living, while his/her father Daoud Moussa Daoud is deceased a few years ago.
He made his primary studies at the parochial school directed by the P. Hanna Makdissi.
In December of the year 1941, he entered to the Seminar St Ephrem-St Benoit to Jerusalem held by the Fathers French Benedictines, where he followed the complementary and secondary studies.
In the year 1948, following the war in Palestine between Jews and Arabs, the seminar was transferred to the Convent from Charfeh, Lebanon. He is there that he finished the last year of his secondary studies. Then he made his studies of philosophy and theology, with the same aforesaid seminar, of the year 1949 until the year 1955.
He was ordained priest on October 17, 1954, by the laying on of hands of fire Cardinal-Patriarch Ignace Gabriel I Tappouni, in theSaint-Georges Cathedral of Syriaques Catholiques, in Beirut, with seven of his fellow-members. Among the eights ordered, five became bishops.
Returned with his diocese of origin in 1955, he performed in Homs the following duties:
- Professor de Catéchisme at the school St Joseph
- Vicar of the Priest of Homs
- Then principal St Joseph and Curé of Homs
- Secretary of the Archbishop's palace and then general episcopal Vicar.
In 1962 he was sent in Rome to study the Canon law at the University of Lateran. he obtained the Licence in 1964.
In 1970 S.B. the Patriarch Mar Ignace Antoine II Hayek appointed him secretary with the Patriarchate. He remained in this load seven consecutive years.
With the Patriarchal Synod of 1977 he was elected Evêque of the diocese of Cairo. his sacring took place in church N.D. of the Delivery with Charfeh, Lebanon. His establishment was made in Cairo in the church Ste. Catherine, October 7, 1977.
It served the diocese of Cairo during seventeen years, and carried out following works:
- Construction of the church Cathedral dedicated to N.D. Rosary, in Cairo.
- Construction of a Parochial center with Héliopolis.
- Construction of a new wing of the school St Michel, in Cairo.
- Construction of the polyclinic "Sittina Mariam".
- He gave spiritual conferences and retirements. He taught the Canon law with Seminar "Al Maadi" of Coptes Catholiques, and at the institute of Philosophy and Theology of Sakakini (Cairo)
To the Patriarchal Synod of 1994, he was transferred from the diocese of Cairo to the diocese of Homs, Syria. Establishment was made in church N.D. of the Delivery with Zeidal - Homs, September 18, 1994.
He was named Consultateur in the Commission of revision of the Canon law and this during fifteen years, with the continuation of which he became member of the same commission on five years.
He chaired the Commission of the translation of Arabic Latin of the Canon law of the Eastern Churches, in Cairo.
A few years ago, he was named member of the congregation for the Doctrines of the Faith, in Rome.
In 1995 he was named member of the permanent Synod and member of the Higher Court of the legal businesses, in the Church Syriaque Catholique.
In 1997 he was named by the assembly of the Patriarchs and the Catholic Bishops in Syria, president of the common Commission of Benevolence (Syria).
With the Patriarchal Synod of 1998, he was elected Patriarche of the Church Syriaque Catholique, October 13. His establishment will take place 25 Octobre 1998 in Cathedral N.D. of the Annunciation, Beirut, Place of the Museum.
November 25, 2000, he was appointed Préfet of the Congregation for the Eastern Churches.
The highly skilled patriarch of Antioche for Syriaques, given on January 8, 2001. He was proclaimed Cardinal in the consistory by Jean Paul II on February 21, 2001.
Member of the council curial:
- Doctrines of the Faith, causes of the Saints (the congregation)
- the Christian Unit, legislative texts (the council)
- Special Council for Lebanon of the Secretariat-general of the Synod of the Bishops.