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Ignatius Antony II Hayyek (or Antun Hayek September 14 1910 – February 21 2007) was the Patriarch of Antioch and all the East of the Syrians of the Syriac Catholic Church from 1968 to 1998. Antun Hayyek was born at Aleppo in 1910 and was ordained priest on June 10 1933. On August 15 1959 he was consecrated bishop of Aleppo by Patriarch Ignatius Gabriel I Tappuni and served there till his appointment as Primate and Patriarch on March 10 1968. His resignation was accepted on July 23 1998.