João Chedid, OMM[1] (18 February 1914 – 31 July 1991) was the first Maronite Bishop of the Maronite Catholic Eparchy of Our Lady of Lebanon of São Paulo in Brazil.
On April 21, 1956, he was appointed auxiliary bishop to the Ordinariate for Eastern Catholics in Brazil, at the same time he was also appointed titular bishop of Arca in Phoenicia dei Maroniti.
[2] The Maronite Patriarch of Antioch and all the East Paul Peter Meouchi ordained him bishop on June 29, 1956, assisted by the co-consecrators Pietro Dib (Eparch of Cairo) and Anthony Peter Khoraish (then Eparch of Sidon).
In 1961 he was co-consecrator of Nasrallah Boutros Sfeir, who later became Patriarch of Antioch.
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