Father George Al-Khoury

Full name: Girgis Raymond Khoury

His mother: Maryam Atallah

Born: March 2, 1975

Married , has two children.

He entered the seminary of the Monastery of Our Lady of Deliverance in Sharfa in 1996, where he continued his philosophical and theological studies at the Holy Spirit University of Kaslik until 2001.

He served as a deacon in the archdiocese between 2001 and 2007.

He was ordained a priest in 2007 and served in the parish of Palmyra until 2013.

 After that, he worked in the parishes of Maskana, Al-Armen, Jabriya, and Badu until 2023, then he was appointed priest of the parishes of Sadad and Al-Hafar.

After the death of the late Bishop Mar Theophilos Philip Barakat, Patriarch Ignatius Youssef III Younan appointed him as Patriarchal Administrator of the Diocese of Homs, Hama, and Nabek and its environs, until October 2021.

Patriarch Younan conferred on him (Khorosopian ordination) on April 3, 2021, in the Cathedral of the Holy Spirit, Al-Hamidiyah – Homs.