List of the principal religious dignitaries in Palestine UNCCP’s Cttee on Jerusalem – note


COMMITTEE ON JERUSALEM

LIST OF PRINCIPAL RELIGIOUS DIGNITARIES IN PALESTINE

The following note is circulated for the information of members of the Committee.

A. CHRISTIAN

 

1.

APOSTOLIC DELEGATE

His Grace Monsignor Testa

2.

LATIN PATRIARCH

(Vacant) Representative of Patriarch: His Grace Monsignor Testa.

3.

ORTHODOX PATRIARCH

His Beatitude Timotheus Themelis, K.B.E.

Note: The Orthodox Patriarch is ill, and the Right Reverend Archbishop Athenagoras is acting as Patriarchal Representative

4.

ARMENIAN PATRIARCH

His Beatitude Guregh Dz. Vard der M.Israelian

5.  

FATHER CUSTOS OF THE HOLY LAND

His Paternity Alberto Gori,

6.

ANGLICAN BISHOP IN JERUSALEM

The Right Reverend W.H. Stewart, D.D.

7.

COPTIC BISHOP

Note: The Coptic Bishop is at present in Egypt. His representative is Father Samuel, The Abbot of the Coptic Convents.

8.

THE SYRIAN ORTHODOX BISHOP

(Vacant) Represented by the Vicar of the Syrian Metropolitan.

9.  

ABYSSINIAN ABBOT

Very Rev. Member Hareghi Wein

10.

ARMENIAN CATHOLIC PATRIARCHAL VICAR

Very Rev. Father Hagob Guiragossian

11.

SYRIAN CATHOLIC PATRIARCHAL VICAR

Very Rev. Monsignor Efrem Hadda

12.

GREEK CATHOLIC PATRIARCHAL VICAR

Very Rev. Archimandrite Purre Saba

13.

MARONITE PATRIARCHAL VICAR

Very Rev. Monsignor France Muharak

B.  MOSLEM

MOSLEM SUPREME MOSLEM SHARIA COUNCIL:

President: Sheikh Husam el Din Jarallah:

C.  JEWISH

 

THE CHIEF RABBINATE:

Ashkenazic Jewish Community — His Eminence Chief Rabbi Dr. Isaac Herzog

Sephardic Jewish Community — His Eminence Chief Rabbi Ben Zion Ouziel


Document symbol: A/AC.25/Com.Jer/1
Download Document Files: https://unispal.un.org/pdfs/AAC25ComJer1.pdf
Document Type: Note
Document Sources: United Nations Conciliation Commission for Palestine (UNCCP)
Subject: Jerusalem, Palestine question
Publication Date: 28/02/1949
2019-03-12T20:06:50-04:00

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