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  1. Nasrallah Boutros Sfeir (Moran Mor Naṣrallah Buṭrus Ṣufayr; Arabic: الكاردينال مار نصر الله بطرس صفير; Latin: Victor Petrus Sfeir; 15 May 1920 – 12 May 2019) was the patriarch of Lebanon's largest Christian body, the Maronite Church, an Eastern Catholic Church in communion with the Holy See.

  2. May 13, 2019 · Cardinal Nasrallah Boutros Sfeir, Maronite Patriarch of Antiochia, between 1986 and 2011, died on Sunday in Beirut after a long illness. On 15 May he would have turned 99.

  3. Aug 28, 2019 · Cardinal Nasrallah Boutros Sfeir’s life tells the story of Lebanon. He was a patriarch in the Maronite Church, a diplomatic interfaith leader, and a local power broker.

  4. Nasrallah Boutros Sfeir, former head of the Maronite Church and a prominent figure in Lebanon, died May 12 in Beirut at age 98. Sfeir, who was also a cardinal, had been ill for a long time, Vatican News wrote.

  5. May 15, 2019 · Cardinal Nasrallah Sfeir, who as the vocal patriarch of Lebanon’s Maronite Christians pressured Syria to end its 15-year occupation — after initially supporting Syrian intervention to help end...

  6. May 14, 2019 · Cardinal Nasrallah Boutros Sfeir, Maronite Patriarch of Antiochia, between 1986 and 2011, died on Sunday in Beirut after a long illness. On 15 May he would have turned 99. Cardinal Sfeir served as the spiritual leader of Maronite Catholics during Lebanon’s 1975-1990 civil war.

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  8. May 13, 2019 · Church bells rang across Lebanon on Sunday to pay tribute to former Maronite patriarch Nasrallah Boutros Sfeir, one of the most influential religious figures of recent decades, who died days before his 99th birthday.