Jean-Marie Chami

Jean-Marie Chami, Ist. del Prado (born 14 May 1962) is a Lebanese-born Melkite Greek Catholic hierarch. He currently serves as the Titular Bishop of Tarsus of the Greek Melkites and the Patriarchal Vicar of Egypt, Sudan, and South Sudan since 2022.

Biography Jean-Marie Chami was born on 14 May 1962 in Beirut, Lebanon. He initially pursued secular studies, and after his high school studies with the Brothers of the Christian Schools, he studied at the Faculty of Fine Arts and Musicology and worked as an architect for a few years.

After completing his philosophical and theological studies for the priesthood, he was ordained a priest for the Melkite Greek Catholic Archeparchy of Beirut and Jbeil on 8 December 1996. He received his episcopal consecration on 3 September 2022 at the Basilica of St. Paul in Harissa from Patriarch Youssef Absi, with Archbishop Georges Bacouni and Bishop Robert Rabbat serving as co-consecrators.