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Anton Odeh Issa
  • 12/03/1934 - Born in Jaffa to a family originating from Aboud, Palestine
  • 17/ 3/ 1934 – Received the Holy Baptism in Jaffa
  • 1945 – Received the Holy Confirmation in Jaffa, and begin his school in the Franciscan in Jaffa then in Aboud.
  • 04/10/1949 - Entered the Latin Patriarchate Minor Seminary
  • 03/10/1954 - Entered the Latin Patriarchate Major Seminary
  • 16/10/1960 - Ordained Deacon in Beit Jala by Bishop Mansour Jallad
  • 29/06/1961 - Ordained Priest at the Latin Patriarchate Co-Cathedral by Bishop Mansour Giallad
  • 06/1961 - Vicar, St. Pius X Parish in South Zerqa; In-Charge of parish School.
  • 08/1963 - Vicar, Beheading of St. John the Baptist Parish in Madaba and Maeen, Jordan
  • 08/1964 - Parish Priest, Annunciation of Our Lady Parish in Shatana, worked three days a week at St. George Parish in Irbed, Jordan
  • 07/1967 - Priest-Chaplain at Freres High School Jabal Hussein in Amman
  • 06/1971 - Obtained Licentiate in Canon Law from Lateran Pontifical University in Rome
  • 12/11/1971 - Appointed Legal Vicar
  • 20/06/1975 - Defended thesis in Law on “Christian Minorities of Palestine”, Pontifical Lateran University, Rome
  • 1971-1988 - Chaplain of the Young Christian Students (JEC) & Head of Commission on Pilgrimages.
  • 1979 - Appointed Judge in the Diocesan Tribunal in Jerusalem
  • 05/1988 - Appointed Head of the Diocesan Tribunal in Amman
  • 16/03/1992 - Appointed Canon of the Holy Sepulchre
  • 1993 - Member of the Bilateral Coordinating Committee between the Holy See and Israel
  • 1995 – Appointed Judge in the Diocesan Tribunal in Jerusalem; Head of the Diocesan Tribunal in Nazareth; Head of the Appeal Court affiliated with the Greek Catholic Church in Haifa
  • 09/06/2009 - Retired from the Diocesan Ecclesiastical Court – Jerusalem, Nazareth, Amman
  • 30/09/2015 - Retired from the Appellate Court
  • 28/12/2020 - Died in Jerusalem.
  • 30/12/2020 – Buried in the Patriarchate crypt – Jerusalem.

His writings:

- In French: “Christian Minorities in Palestine”
- Update of the book “Personal Status Law”