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Maximos V Hakim
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Head of the Melkite Greek Catholic Church from 1967 to 2000 "George Hakim" redirects here. Maximos V Hakim ( ; May 18, 1908, in Tanta , Egypt – June 29, 2001, Beirut , Lebanon ) was elected Patriarch of Antioch and All the East, and Alexandria and Jerusalem of the Melkite Greek Catholic Church in 1967 and served until 2000.1 He guided the church through turbulent changes in the Middle East and rapid expansion in the Western hemisphere.
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elected patriarch of antioch and all the east
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melkite greek catholic hierarch
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