Chucrallah-Nabil El-Hage
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Chucrallah-Nabil El-Hage[1][2] (in Arabic: شكرالله نبيل الحاج, romanized: Shukrallah Nabīl al-Ḥājj), also transliterated Shukrallah Nabil El Hajj (born 26 February 1943 in Hajjeh, Lebanon), was the Archeparch of the Maronite Catholic Archeparchy of Tyre from 2003[3] until his retirement in 2020.[4]
El-Hage was born in Hajjé, a village in the district of Sidon (Saida), which is part of the South Governorate in Southern Lebanon.[5]
He entered into the seminary of the Maronite Patriarchate in Ghazir in 1957. He completed his secondary education in 1962 after attending the Supplementary at Marist Brothers in Sidon as well.[6] In 1963 El-Hage entered in the Saint Joseph University in Beirut, where he studied philosophy and theology. On 13 June 1970 El-Hage was ordained to the priesthood.[7] In subsequent years he worked as a teacher and librarian at the clerical school of Ghazir, which he had attended as a pupil himself.[6]
In 1977, he obtained a degree in French language by the Lebanese University and received a grant from the government to study in France, where he obtained a Diploma of Advanced Studies (DEA) from the Provence University, and later obtained a doctorate in 1981 in the French language.[8]
