Agapios Salomon Naoum

Agapios Salomon Naoum, BS (1 August 1882 – 1 May 1967) was Archbishop of the Melkite Greek Catholic Archeparchy of Tyre in Lebanon.

Life

Agapios Naoum was ordained on 8 September 1907 Chaplain of the Melkite Basilian of the Most Holy Redeemer. On 3 November 1933, he was appointed as successor to Archbishop Maximos IV Sayegh to the see of Tyre and on 3 December 1933, by Patriarch Cyril IX Moghabghab was ordained bishop. On 15 October 1965^[1] he resigned his duties as archeparch and with simultaneous appointment as Titular Archbishop of Tarsus of Greek Melkites he became Professor Emeritus until his death on 1 May 1967. Naoum was succeeded by Archbishop Georges Haddad.