An article about the finalists in competition to win the Bishop S. Walters Award, awarded for distinguished volunteer service to the Church in North Carolina. (Folder 12-47)
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…