Elias Peter Hoayek: Difference between revisions

'''Elias Peter Hoayek''' ({{lang-ar|الياس بطرس الحويّك}}; 4 December 1843 – 24 December 1931; also spelled '''Hoyek, Hwayek, Huayek, Juayek, Hawayek, Houwayek''') was the 72nd [[List of Maronite Patriarchs|Patriarch of Antioch for the Maronites]], the largest MaroniteCatholic community in the [[Levant]], from 1898 to 1931 when he died.

Hoyek wrote: "Both national feeling and religion make it an obligation for you to respect and love everybody whatever may be his belief. Reason leads you to fraternize with the person you live with under the same sky and on the same land." (Hoayek, Al-Zakhair Al-Saniyyat, Jounieh, 1931 p. 501)