Hyakinthos Gad

Hyakinthos Gad (2 February 1912 – 30 January 1975) was Apostolic exarch of the Greek Byzantine Catholic Church from 17 February 1958 to 1975.

Biography

Gad was born on 2 February 1912 in Greece. After receiving theological education, he was ordained on 1 December 1935 as a Catholic priest of the Byzantine Rite. On 17 February 1958, Pope Pius XII appointed him exarch and titular Bishop of Gratianopolis. On 12 March 1958, Gad was ordained bishop by the patriarch of the Melkite Greek Catholic Church Maximos V Hakim, who co-celebrated with the Roman Catholic Archbishop of Athens Marios Makrionitis and Roman Catholic Bishop of Syros and Milos Georgios Xenopoulos. From 1961 to 1964, Hyakinthos Gad participated in the I, II, III and IV the sessions of the Second Vatican Council. In early 1975, Exarch Gad retired and died soon after, on 30 January 1975.^[1][2]

References

External links

• http://www.catholic-hierarchy.org/bishop/bgad.html

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Greek Byzantine Catholic Church

Greek Catholic Church

Rite

• Byzantine Rite

Exarchates

• Greek Catholic Apostolic Exarchate of Greece
• Greek Catholic Apostolic Exarchate of Istanbul

Cathedrals

• Holy Trinity Cathedral, Athens
• Holy Trinity Greek Catholic Cathedral, Istanbul

Churches

• Pammakaristos Theotokos Monastery, Athens
• Holy Apostles Peter and Paul Church, Giannitsa
• Pammakaristou Theotokou Monastery, Kifissia
• Chapel of the Nativity of Mary, Nea Makri
• Three Bells of Fira, Santorini
• Chapel of the Nativity, Syros

Apostolic Exarchs

Greece	George Calavassy Hyakinthos Gad Anargyros Printezis Dimitri Salachas Manuel Nin
Istanbul	Isaias Papadopoulos George Calavassy Dionisio Leonida Varouhas

See also

• Catholic Church in Greece
• Catholic Church in Turkey
• Eastern Catholic Churches

• Catholicism portal

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