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Michel Sabbah (Arabic: ميشيل صباح; born 19 March 1933 in Nazareth Palestine) was the Archbishop and Latin Patriarch of Jerusalem from 1987 to 2008 the first non-Italian to hold this position in more than five centuries.Sabbah began his priestly studies at the Latin Patriarchal Seminary of Beit Jala in October 1949 and was ordained a priest for the Latin Patriarchate of Jerusalem in June 1955. He was a parish priest for a few years before being sent to the University of St.
