John D. Faris

Quick Facts

Full Name	John D. Faris
Occupation	Catholic Priest
Date Of Birth	Jan 18, 1951(1951-01-18)
Age	73
Birthplace	Uniontown
Country	United States
Birth City	Pennsylvania
Horoscope	Capricorn

John D. Faris Biography

John D. Faris is one of the most popular and richest Catholic Priest who was born on January 18, 1951 in Uniontown, Pennsylvania, United States. Faris was born in the year 1951 in Uniontown, Pennsylvania, the son of John M. Faris and his wife, Goldie Bowlen. He was a student at Charles E. Boyle Elementary School, Benjamin Franklin Junior High School and Uniontown Area High School. In 1968, he enrolled in Saint Vincent College in Latrobe, Pennsylvania. While at Saint Vincent College the student felt a call to be priest, and he was moved onto Sacred Heart Seminary in Detroit, Michigan, where he received an Associate of Arts degree in 1972. While attending the Pontifical North American College in Rome and then attending an institution called the Pontifical Gregorian University, where the degree was awarded as a Bachelor of Sacred Theology (magna cum laude) in the year 1975. Then, he pursued research in theology of morals at Alphonsianum.

Faris later returned to Rome and in the year 1980 Faris was given the title of Doctor of Eastern Canon Law (magna cum laude) from the Pontifical Oriental Institute, with an essay about The Communion of Catholic Churches: Ecclesiology and Terminology.

From 1996–2009, Faris served in a variety of positions at the Catholic Near East Welfare Association (CNEWA), finally serving as Deputy Secretary General. While serving with this special papal agency dedicated to assisting the Eastern Churches, Faris traveled extensively in the Middle East, India, northeastern Africa and Eastern Europe and was involved in the fund-raising initiatives of the agency.

Faris serves as a Catholic Representative on the North American Orthodox- Catholic Theological Consultation and the United States Oriental Orthodox- Roman Catholic Consultation. From 2007 – 2011, he served as a member of the Catholic Delegation on the Joint Working Group, a liaison body of the Catholic Church and the World Council of Churches.. In 2019, Faris was appointed by the Council for Promoting the Unity of Christians to the Catholic Delegation of the International Joint Commission for Theological Dialogue between the Catholic Church and the Oriental Orthodox Churches.

After his doctorate was completed, Faris was named the Vice Rector of the Cathedral of Our Lady of Lebanon in Brooklyn. After one year of service at the cathedral the church, he was named vice Chancellor for the parish. In the year 1980, he was named Chancellor, and then Protosyncellus (Vicar General) of the eparchy. He remained as Chancellor until the year 1996. In the same time frame the eparchy appointed him an official Chaplain to His Holiness by Pope John Paul II and then ordained a chorbishop in the Maronite Church by Zayek in the year 1991.

John D. Faris Net Worth

John D. Faris is one of the richest Catholic Priest from United States. According to our analysis, Wikipedia, Forbes & Business Insider, John D. Faris 's net worth $5 Million. (Last Update: December 11, 2023)

John Denver Faris (born January 18th 1951) is an American Chorbishop of the Syriac Maronite Church of Antioch which is part of his parish as the Maronite Catholic Eparchy Saint Maron of Brooklyn, located at Brooklyn, New York. The canon is also a law lawyer of the Eastern Catholic Church, and an expert sought-after to facilitate talks between Catholic Church as well as other Eastern Christian Churches.

Archbishop Francis Mansour Zayek ordained him to the priesthood on July 17th, 1976 in St. George Church in Uniontown.

Faris serves as an assistant professor in the School of Canon Law at the Catholic University of America in Washington, D.C.. A member since 1984, he was elected President of the Canon Law Society of America in 1994, and later served as the chairman of the ad hoc committee responsible for the preparation of the most recent English translation of the Code of Canons of the Eastern Churches. He has also been elected the Secretary General of the Society for the Law of the Eastern Churches (1991-2000). He served as a consultor for the United States Conference of Catholic Bishops as a part of its Liaison Committee for Latin and Eastern Church Affairs (1992–96). In January 2018, Faris was appointed Chair of the CLSA Eastern Churches Committee for a three- year term.

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