| Intro | Priest |
| Is | Priest |
| From | Egypt |
| Type | Religion |
| Gender | male |
| Birth |
27 January 1959, Ismaïlia, Egypt |
| Age | 61 years |
| Star sign | Aquarius |
Rafic Nahra, born in 1959, in Ismailia, Egypt, priest, is the current patriarchal vicar of the Hebrew Catholics of Israel in the Latin Patriarchate of Jerusalem since October 21, 2017.
Biography
Born on January 27, 1959 in Ismailia, Egypt, to a Lebanese family, Rafic Nahra moved to France at the age of 20, to obtain a degree in 1985 from the École des ponts ParisTech, a profession he held for two years in Geodia enterprise.
In 1987, he entered the seminary in the French capital and was sent to Rome to pursue ecclesiastical studies with a bachelor’s degree in theology from the Gregorian University and a master’s degree in Sacred Scripture from the Bible Institute in Rome.
Ordained a priest in 1992 by Cardinal Jean-Marie Lustiger, he was incardinated in the diocese of Paris, which sent him to Jerusalem from June 1992 to June 1994 to further study the Holy Scriptures.
In Paris, in the years that followed, he had various pastoral and academic assignments. From 2001 to 2007, he was spiritual director at St. Augustine’s House and a professor of biblical muses at the École Cathedrale in Paris while being vicar of the Church of St. Francis of Molitor.
In 2004, he returned to the Holy Land to pursue his doctorate in Jewish thought at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem and began his pastoral service at the Vicariat of Santiago for Hebrew-speaking Catholics and at the Maronite Parish in Jerusalem until the beginning of the 2007.
From September 2007 until September 2011, he became a professor six months a year at the Collège des Bernardins in Paris, where he taught biblical muse, and spent the other six in pastoral service at the Vicariat Saint-Jacques to begin his Doctorate Philosophy at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem.
From 2011 to 2014, he focused on his doctoral studies.
From September 2014, he was appointed head of the Hebrew-speaking Catholic Community of St. Simeon and St. Anne of Jerusalem.
When Father David Neuhaus resigned as patriarchal vicar in September 2017, he was appointed coordinator for the Pastoral of Migrants.
Then, on October 21, 2017, the Apostolic Administrator of the Latin Patriarchate of Jerusalem, Bishop Pierbattista Pizzaballa appointed him Patriarchal Vicar for the Hebrew Catholic Community of Israel of the Vicarage of Santiago, and Episcopal Vicar for Migrants asylum seekers in Israel.
In addition, Father Rafiq Nahra speaks five languages: Arabic, Hebrew, French, English and Italian.
Links
- https://www.lpj.org/bishops-and-vicars/vicar-for-hebrew-speaking-catholics/
- http://catholic.co.il/index.php?option=com_content&view=featured&Itemid=484&lang=en
In French:
- https://www.terresainte.net/2017/10/rafic-nahra-officiellement-vicaire-patriarcal-de-la-kehilla/#
- https://www.collegedesbernardins.fr/intervenants/nahra-p-rafic