A brief history of the St. Elias Maronite Church located in Roanoke, Virginia, written by Loretta Saleeba Jolley. The history includes accounts of some of the earliest Lebanese immigrants, including Father Rabil, an ancestor of Matt Kannan. It covers…

Francis Mansour Zayek was the first Maronite bishop to serve outside of the Middle East, heading the Maronite Apostolic Exarchate in Brazil between 1962-1966. In 1966, Pope Paul IV transferred him to Detroit, MI, to head the Exarchate in the United…