Maximos IV Sayegh, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death
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Melkite Greek Catholic Patriarch of Antioch
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Place of Birth: Aleppo, Aleppo Governorate, Syria
About Maximos IV Sayegh
- Maximos IV Sayegh (or Saïgh) (10 April 1878, Aleppo, Syria – 5 November 1967, Beirut, Lebanon) was Patriarch of Antioch and All the East, and Alexandria and Jerusalem of the Melkite Greek Catholic Church from 1947 until his death in 1967.
- One of the fathers of Second Vatican Council, the outspoken patriarch stirred the Council by urging reconciliation between the Catholic and Eastern Orthodox churches.
- He accepted the title of cardinal in 1965 after Pope Paul VI clarified the significance of that title in the case of an Eastern Patriarch.
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