Ignatius Basile Moses I Daoud (or Moussa Daoud) () (18 September 1930 – 7 April 2012) was Patriarch of Antioch for the Syrian Catholic Church, a cardinal-bishop (because he was an Eastern patriarch elevated to the cardinalate), and Prefect of the Congregation for the Oriental Churches in the Catholic Church.
Biography
Daoud was born in Meskaneh, a village near Homs, Syria, to Daoud Moussa Daoud and Kahla Elias Dabbas. He was ordained a priest on 17 October 1954. He earned a degree in Canon law at the Pontifical Lateran University in Rome. On 18 September 1977 he was consecrated bishop of Cairo by Patriarch Ignatius Antony II Hayyek. In 1994 he was appointed archbishop of Homs of the Catholic Syrians.
Distinctions
- Grand Master of the Order of Saint Ignatius of Antioch
References
External links
- Biography at Holy Roman Cardinals page