Fouad Twal

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name=Patriarch Fouad Twal
dipstyle=His Beatitude
offstyle=Your Beatitude
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Fouad Twal ( _ar. فؤاد طوال) (born October 23, 1940 at Madaba) is a Roman Catholic archbishop. Since June 2008 he has served as the Latin Patriarch of Jerusalem.

He was ordained to the priesthood on June 29, 1966. After his ordination he was the vicar of Ramallah. In 1972 he entered the Pontifical Lateran University where he studied for a doctrate in canon law. He was awarded his doctorate in 1975. He was appointed the prelate of the territorial prelature of Tunis by Pope John Paul II on May 30, 1992. He was concrecrated to the episcopate on July 22 later that year. In 1995, the territorial prelature was elevated to become the Diocese of Tunis, and Twal was made an archbishop "ad personam". In 2005, Pope Benedict XVI named him the coadjutor archbishop of Jerusalem. He succeeded Michel Sabbah as the Latin Patriarch of Jerusalem in 2008.

Receiving the Pallium

His Beatitude Fouad Twal received his pallium at the hands of His Holiness Pope Benedict XVI at a mass in the Basilica of Saint Peter, Vatican City State, 29 June 2008 at around 12.05pm local (Palestinian) time.

His Beatitude on the situation of Palestine and its people

On the situation of Palestine and its people he has recently said: "We receive a lot of help and we are grateful but at the same time we say we need more. What we need is peace. We don’t only to be a begging Church, we don’t want to be beggars with a licence. I don’t like this. We need a political horizon, it’s time to put an end to the Wall, the Checkpoints, it’s time for a Palestinian State, it’s time for an end to our problems with visa’s.,” [cite news |title= Pope Names Arch. Fouad Twal Patriarch of Jerusalem |url= http://www.radiovaticana.org/magyar/Articolo.asp?c=213631 |work= Vatican Radio |publisher= |date=2008-06-21 |accessdate=2008-09-13 ]

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* [http://www.catholic-hierarchy.org/bishop/btwalf.html Archbishop Faoud Twal] ; Catholic-Hierarchy.org; retrieved February 9, 2006.
* [http://www.maxarios.com/Fotodatenbank/Holy-Land/Menschen/Kirchenfuehrer/Katholisch/Lateinisches+Patriarchat/ Photos of Fouad Twal (maXarios.com)]
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