Biography

Monsignor Joseph Nasrallah, born October 10, 1911 in An-Nabk in Syria, died November 19, 1993 in Damascus, is a Syrian ecclesiastic, who was exarch of the Melkite Greek Catholic Church (Melkite Patriarchate of Antioch), parish priest of Saint-Julien-le-Pauvre for forty years1 and representative of the patriarch to the French government2. In addition to his tasks as a man of the Church, he built a scientific work of systematic inventories of Christian Arabic manuscripts to a monumental history of the literary movement in the Melkite Church3. In 1992, he received the silver-gilt medal of the Prix du rayonnement de la langue et de la littérature françaises for his entire work on the Melkite Church4. ​