Cyril IX Moghabghab

Cyril IX Moghabghab (October 29, 1855 in Ain Zhalta, Mount Lebanon Mutasarrifate – September 8, 1947 in Alexandria, Egypt) served as Patriarch of Antioch and All the East, and Alexandria and Jerusalem of the Melkite Greek Catholic Church from 1925 to 1947.

Patriarch Cyril was born in Ain Zhalta, Mount Lebanon Mutasarrifate on October 29, 1855.

He succeeded Demetrius I Qadi as patriarch of the Melkite Greek Catholic Church on December 8, 1925 and the Pope accepted his request for ecclesiastical communion on June 21, 1926.

He also served as the spiritual protector of international ecumenical Military and Hospitaller Order of St. Lazarus of Jerusalem.

Patriarch Cyril died on September 8, 1947, and was succeeded by Maximos IV Sayegh.