Giacinto-Boulos Marcuzzo
Giacinto-Boulos Marcuzzo (born 24 April 1945 in San Polo di Piave, Italy) is a Roman Catholic bishop who served as Auxiliary Bishop Emeritus of the Latin Patriarchate of Jerusalem and lives in Nazareth. As of December 2020, he was the Latin Patriarchal Vicar for Jerusalem and Palestine, and he is the patriarchal vicar for Israel.
He was ordained a priest on 22 June 1969 in the Church of All Nations. On 29 April 1993 he was appointed Auxiliary Bishop of the Latin Patriarchate of Jerusalem and was consecrated on 3 July 1993 by Michel Sabbah at the Church of the Holy Sepulchre. He was initially the Titular Bishop of Siminina and, from 29 October 1994, the Titular Bishop of Emmaus-Nicopolis.
Marcuzzo studied philosophy and theology at the Major Patriarchal Seminary in Beit Jala. He later earned a doctorate after studying dogmatic theology at the Pontifical Lateran University and spirituality at the Teresianum in Rome. He taught at the Major Seminary in Beit Jala (and served as its rector) and taught Patrology and Arabic Christian literature at Bethlehem University. He also worked as a chaplain in Beit Jala, in the West Bank, in Ramallah, and in Malakal in southern Sudan, and he directed the minor seminary.
He is fluent in Italian, Arabic, French, English, German and Hebrew. He retired on 29 August 2020.
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