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Photo of Patriarch Maletius II of Antioch provided by family member Jade Doumani. Published in <em>Alnashira</em> (Patriarchate of Antioch and All the East), 27:1 (2018).
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His Beatitude '''Meletius II (Doumani) of Antioch''' (1839 – 1906) was Patriarch of Antioch and all the East during the first decade of the twentieth century. He was the first native Arab [[primate]] of the [[Church of Antioch]] in 168 years. Patriarch Meletius was [[patriarch]] from 1899 to 1906.
When Saint [[Raphael of Brooklyn|Raphael]] (then an [[archimandrite]]) was elected Bishop of Zahleh, Lebanon in December 1901, Meletius asked him to return to the patriarchate from his mission in the United States. Archimandrite Raphael politely refused, noting that he wished to complete the work he was then doing in the United States.
