Edmond Farhat (1933-2016) *83

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was a Lebanese Apostolic nuncio, a diplomatic representative of the Holy See. Farhat was born in Ain Kfaa, Lebanon in 1933. He was a bishop of the Maronite Church who was engaged by many years in the papal diplomacy. On March 28, 1959, the Maronite Patriarch of Antioch Paul Peter Meouchi consecrated him priest. He graduated in theology, philosophy and canon law in Paris and Rome. Edmond Farhat became a doctor of theology. Farhat between 1967 and 1989 worked as undersecretary of the General Secretariat of the Synod of Bishops in Rome and from 1970 to 1989 as Professor of Islamic Law at the University of Sassari (Italy). Pope Paul VI awarded him on 26 February 1971 as honorific chaplain of His Holiness (Monsignor). On November 25, 1983 Farhat was awarded by Pope John Paul II as Honorary Prelate of His Holiness.

He was firstly on August 26, 1989 appointed apostolic delegate for Libya, Apostolic Pro-Nuncio to Tunisia and Algeria and named by Pope John Paul II titular archbishop of Byblus. On October 20, 1989 Farhat was ordained bishop by Pope John Paul II and his co-consecrators were Edward Cassidy, Titular archbishop of Amantia and Francesco Colasuonno, Titular bishop of Truentum. On July 26, 1995 Farhat was named Nuncio to Slovenia and Macedonia. In Macedonia he worked as mediator of diplomatic relations between the Sovereign Military Order of Malta and the young Republic, which thus the Order officially recognized. On December 11, 2001 he served as nuncio to Turkmenistan and Turkey and on July 26, 2005 he succeeded for reasons of age Archbishop Giorgio Zur as apostolic nuncio to Austria.

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