Joseph V Dergham El Khazen[1] (or Yusuf Dargham al-Khazin, Arabic: يوسف الخامس ضرغام الخازن, Latin: Ioseph Dargam Alchasen, born in Ghosta, Lebanon - died on May 13, 1742), was the 60th Maronite Patriarch of Antioch from 1733 to his death in 1742.
The confirmation of his election by Pope Clement XII arrived on December 18, 1733,[3] with the brief Cum nos a vinculo[4] and El Khazen received the pallium.
Among the main points discussed by the assembly: the separation of mixed monasteries, the division of patriarchy in eparchies, the training of clergy, the discipline of the sacraments, and economic issues.
The Synod of 1736[4][5] instituted canonically eight eparchies, over the patriarchal seat, defining its territorial jurisdictions: Aleppo, Beirut, Byblos coupled with Batroun (Botrys), Cyprus, Damascus, Baalbek (Heliopolis), Tripoli and Tyre-Sidon.
Their acts were approved definitively, in their Latin translation, on 1 September 1741 with the papal bull Singularis Romanorum,[6] while the Apostolic praedecessorum of 14 February 1742, confirmed the decisions of the Maronite Synod on the division of patriarchy in eparchies, their number and their spatial extent [7] and discarded El Khazen's petition.