Joseph Soueif

Joseph Antoine Soueif (Arabic: يوسف انطوان سويف; born 14 July 1962) is a Lebanese clergyman serving as the Maronite Archbishop of Tripoli.

Joseph Soueif was born in the Lebanese town of Chekka,[1] a coastal village in northern Lebanon, in Batroun District.

He was ordained to the priesthood at the age of twenty-five on 3 September 1987 by the Maronite Archbishop of Tripoli Antoine Joubeir.

The solemn consecration took place on 6 December 2008 being his principal consecrator His Beatitude Maronite Patriarch of Antioch, Nasrallah Boutros Sfeir and the Archbishops Boutros Gemayel of Cyprus and Georges Bou-Jaoudé of Tripoli acted as co-consecrators bishops.

His excellency solemn installation mass took place on 6 December 2020 at Saint Maroun cathedral of Tripoli.