| LC control no. | n 84071423 |
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| Descriptive conventions | rda |
| Personal name heading | Ṣufayr, Naṣr Allāh |
| Variant(s) | Ṣafīr, Naṣr Allāh Sfeir, Nasrallah-Pierre Sfeir, patriarche صفير، نصر الله نصر الله صفير |
| Birth date | 1920-05-15 |
| Death date | 2019-05-12 |
| Place of birth | Rayfoun (Lebanon) |
| Place of death | Beirut (Lebanon) |
| Field of activity | Christianity |
| Affiliation | Catholic Church. Maronite Patriarchate of Antioch |
| Profession or occupation | Cardinals |
| Special note | Machine-derived non-Latin script reference project. Non-Latin script references not evaluated. |
| Found in | His Wa-ghābat wujūh, 1961-1983, 1984 or 1985: t.p. (al-Maṭrān Naṣr Allāh Ṣufayr) His ʻIẓat al-Aḥad, 1990?-: v. 1, t.p. (al-Baṭriyark Naṣr Allāh Buṭrus Ṣufayr) p. 3 (Baṭriyark Anṭiyākīyah) Le patriarcat maronite et la question libanaise dans les textes de Sa Béatitude le patriarche Mâr Nasrallah-Pierre Sfeir, 1990?: cover, etc. (patriarche Sfeir) Washington post WWW site, viewed May 13, 2019 (Cardinal Nasrallah Butros Sfeir died May 12 [2019] in Beirut. He was 98. His death was announced in a statement by the Maronite Church, which he led as patriarch from 1986 until his resignation in 2011. Cardinal Sfeir was born in the village of Rayfoun, north of Beirut, on May 15, 1920. After being ordained a priest in 1950, he served in several positions within the church before being ordained as a bishop in 1961. Over the next 25 years, he served as patriarchal vicar and secretary to the Maronite patriarchate. In April 1986, he became the 76th patriarch of the Maronite Church) |
| Associated language | ara |
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