Cyril Salim Bustros
archbishop
Cyril Salim Bustros S.M.S.P. (born January 26, 1939) is a Lebanese Melkite Greek Catholic hierarch who has served as Archbishop of Beirut and Byblos since 1988. He previously served as Archbishop of Baalbeck and later as Eparch of Newton. He is a former professor at Saint Joseph University in Beirut.
Life
Archbishop Cyril was born at Ain-Borday, near Baalbek, Lebanon, on January 26, 1939. He is a member of the Bustros family, a prominent clan in Lebanese society.
Education
After his primary and secondary studies at the Minor Seminary of St. Paul at Harissa, he pursued his philosophical studies at St. Paul Institute in 1956 and 1957, and made his novitiate with the White Fathers in Gap, France. He then studied theology for four years (1958–1962) at the Major Seminary at St. Anne of Jerusalem.
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