New Metropolitan of Beirut and Jbeil Lebanon

New Metropolitan of Beirut and Jbeil, Lebanon Archbishop Cyril Bustros On June 15, 2011 the web site of the Melkite Patriarch Announced – His Holiness Pope Benedict XVI has given his assent to the election of two archbishops, canonically elected by the Holy...

Eparch’s Lenten 2006 Message

A message from Archbishop Cyril Salim Bustros Annunciation Cathedral “Be Holy, Because God is Holy” Dear brothers and sisters in Christ! We read in the First Letter of St. Peter: “Gird up the loins of your mind, live soberly, and set your hopes...

Eparch’s Lenten 2004 Message

A message from Archbishop Cyril Salim Bustros My beloved brothers and sisters in Christ, The Lenten season is a time of repentance, prayer, and joy in the Lord. On Monday of the first week of Great Lent, our Byzantine Church invites us first of all to repentance. In...

Eparch’s Christmas 2004 Letter

Archbishop Cyril Bustros’ Christmas Letter To the Clergy, Laity and Friends of the Melkite Eparchy of Newton December, 2004 “When the fullness of time came, God sent his Son, born of a woman, born a subject of the Law, to redeem the subjects of the Law and...

Archbishop Cyril’s Enthronement Address

Address of Most Rev. Cyril Salim Bustros at the Enthronement Liturgy Cathedral of the Eparchy of Newton August 18, 2004 Your Beatitude, Most Reverend Bishops, dear priests, deacons and subdeacons, dear sisters and brothers in Christ, “Let your light...