John XII Peter El Hajj (1 November 1817 in Dlebta, Keserwan District – 24 December 1898 in Bkerké), (or Youhanna Boutros El Hajj, El-Hage, El-Haj, El-Hadj, Arabic: يوحنا الثاني عشر بطرس الحاج), was the 71st Maronite Patriarch of Antioch from 1890 until his death in 1898.

[1] After having studied Islamic law, on May 10, 1844, he was appointed judge in Mount Lebanon, a position he held till 1855, when he became secretary of Archbishop Paolo Brunoni, a Cypriot who was the Apostolic Legate of Syria.

[1] He was appointed eparch of the Maronite Catholic Eparchy of Baalbek and consecrated bishop on August 15, 1861, by Maronite Patriarch of Antioch Paul Peter Massad.

After Massad's death, John Peter El Hajj was unanimously elected patriarch of Antioch of the Maronites on April 28, 1890.

[4] Also, El Hajj instructed the archbishop of Arca di Fenicia dei Maroniti and the future Patriarch Elias Peter Hoayek to raise the necessary funds for the construction of a residence to Maronites in Jerusalem and for the construction of the new Maronite seminary in Rome, which will be inaugurated in 1893.