Joseph Tobji received on 16 March 1996 the sacrament of
Holy Orders for the
Maronite Catholic Archeparchy of Aleppo. The decision of the 14th Synod of Bishops of the Maronite Church on 14 March 2015 elected him Archbishop of Aleppo.
Pope Francis approved his election as Archbishop of Aleppo on 31 October 2015. On 7 December 2015 Tobji was ordained eparch by the hands of
Maronite Patriarch of Antioch,
Cardinal Bechara Boutros al-Rahi,
OMM. His co-consecrators were his predecessor
Youssef Anis Abi-Aad, IdP,
Elias Khoury Sleman, Emeritus Eparch of Latakia and
Antoine Chbeir, Eparch of Latakia. ==References==