title: Philippe Boutros Chebaya
text: # Philippe Boutros Chebaya
  
  Philippe Boutros Chebaya (May 20, 1920, in Bsharri, Lebanon – 8 October 2002) was the first Maronite bishop in 1990 of the newly established Maronite Catholic Eparchy of Baalbek-Deir El Ahmar in Lebanon.
  
  ## Life
  
  On March 25, 1944, Philippe Boutros Chabaya was ordained to the priesthood in the Maronite Catholic Eparchy of Batroun. His appointment as first bishop of Baalbek-Deir El Ahmar took place on 9 June 1990. Maronite Patriarch of Antioch Cardinal Nasrallah Boutros Sfeir ordained Chebaya bishop on August 5, 1990 and his co-consecrators were Roland Aboujaoudé, Auxiliary Bishop of Antioch and Bishop Georges Abi-Saber, OLM, also Auxiliary Bishop of Antioch. His retirement as bishop by age-related reasons was on June 10, 1995. Until his death on October 8, 2002, he was Emeritus bishop of Baalbek-Deir El-Ahmar. His successor was Paul-Mounged El-Hachem.
  
  