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Nasrallah Boutros Sfeir
Nasrallah Boutros Sfeir
(, ; born on 15 May 1920 in
Rayfoun
,
Lebanon
) is the
patriarch
emeritus
of Lebanon's largest Christian body, the
Maronite Church
, an
Eastern Catholic Church
in communion with the
Holy See
. He is also a
Cardinal
. He was elected
Patriarch of Antioch for the Maronites
on 27 April 1986, and his resignation was accepted on 26 February 2011. He is the third Maronite Cardinal and he was the 76th Patriarch of the Maronite Church with the official title of "His Beatitude and Eminence the seventy-sixth
Patriarch of Antioch
and the Whole Levant".
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