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Cardinal Nasrallah Pierre Sfeir, Patriarch emeritus of Antioch for Maronites (Lebanon), was born on 15 May 1920 in Reyfoun in the Maronite Diocese of Sarba, Lebanon.
He was educated at the school in Mar-Abda Harharaya from 1933 to 1936.
He attended the Saint-Maron Seminary in Gahzir, Lebanon (1937-1939) for his secondary studies, and then the Major Seminary at St Joseph's University in Beirut (1940-1943).
He studied philosophy and theology at the theological faculty of St Joseph's University from 1944 to 1950.
He was ordained a priest on 7 May 1950, and appointed curate of the parish of Reyfoun and secretary of the Diocese of Damas, an office he held from 1950 to 1956.
Also, from 1956 to 1961, he was secretary to the Maronite Patriarchate.
From 1951 to 1961 he taught literature and Arabic philosophy and translation at the College of the Marist Fathers in Jounieh.
Elected to the titular Church of Tarsus for Maronites, he was named Patriarchal Vicar General on 19 June 1961 a