Michel Sabbah

Styles of
**Patriarch Michael Sabbah**
Styles of; Patriarch Michael Sabbah
Reference style	His Beatitude
Spoken style	Your Beatitude
Religious style	Monsignor
Posthumous style	n/a

His Beatitude

Michel Sabbah
ميشيل صباح
His Beatitude; Michel Sabbah; ميشيل صباح;
Patriarch Emeritus of Jerusalem
Archdiocese	Jerusalem
See	Jerusalem
Appointed	11 December 1987
Installed	6 January 1988
Term ended	21 June 2008
Predecessor	Giacomo Giuseppe Beltritti
Successor	Fouad Boutros Twal
Orders
Ordination	29 June 1955; by Alberto Gori
Consecration	6 January 1988; by Pope John Paul II
Personal details
Born	19 March 1933 (age 91); Nazareth
Denomination	Roman Catholic

Michel Sabbah (Arabic: ميشيل صباح; born 19 March 1933) is a Palestinian Catholic prelate who served as the Latin Patriarch of Jerusalem from 1987 to 2008, the first non-Italian to hold the position in more than five centuries.