Born in Maarab,
Lebanon, on 28 November 1929, Tabet was ordained a priest of the
Maronite Church on 22 December 1956. In 1960, he was appointed to prepare for work in the diplomatic service of the
Holy See by studies at Rome's
Pontifical Ecclesiastical Academy. From 1978 to 1980 he was a commissioner of the
Roman Curia on the West Indies (Antilles). In this period, he was given the title of
honorary prelate. On 9 February 1980,
Pope John Paul II appointed Tabet
titular archbishop of Sinna and Apostolic Pro-Nuncio to Trinidad and Tobago, to Barbados, to Jamaica, and to the Bahamas, and Apostolic Delegate to the remainder of the Caribbean, to which the
Holy See refers by the name of the Antilles. Tabet was consecrated bishop on 30 March 1980 by the Maronite Patriarch of Antioch, Cardinal
Anthony Peter Khoraish, assisted by co-consecrators
Chucrallah Harb, Eparch of Jounieh, and
Roland Aboujaoudé, auxiliary bishop of Antioch. On 11 February 1984, Tabet's responsibilities were expanded with the additional appointment as Apostolic Pro-Nuncio to Belize. On 8 September 1984, he was reassigned as
Apostolic Pro-Nuncio to Nigeria. On 14 December 1991, he was appointed the
Permanent Observer of the Holy See to the United Nations in Geneva, a post he held until March 1995. On 2 January 1996, Tabet was appointed Apostolic Nuncio to Greece. He remained in the post until 25 January 2005, date of his retirement from the Holy See's diplomatic service. Tabet was member of the honorary committee of the Bios Prize Award of the
United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees. Archbishop Paul Fouad Tabet, apostolic nuncio, died on 20 July 2009. ==Notes==