Sélim Sayegh

The author, His Excellency Bishop Sélim Sayegh, was born in 1935 in Jordan and ordained a priest in the Latin Patriarchate of Jerusalem in 1959. He achieved a Doctorate Degree in Canon Law from Rome in 1966, was appointed at the Ecclesiastical Tribunals of the Latin Patriarchate in Jerusalem and Amman, Jordan, and, in 1976, he was appointed Rector of the Latin Patriarchal Seminary of Beit-Jala.

On January 6, 1982, he was ordained Bishop in Rome by Pope Saint John Paul II, and he served as Auxiliary Bishop and Vicar General of the Latin Patriarch of Jerusalem in Jordan from 1982 to 2012. He retired at the mandatory age of 75.

He is the author of more than twenty books of spirituality in French and Arabic. Several of them have been translated and published in English and Italian. He is retired and lives at “Our Lady of Peace Center,” near Amman. His latest book, translated from French to English, is “The Vow of Victim to Jesus Eucharist, Messenger Sister Mary of the Holy Trinity Poor Clare of Jerusalem”.

He devotes much of his time to Jordan’s developmentally disabled at Our Lady of Peace Center in Amman, Jordan, a school and clinic for developmentally disabled children that he established.