# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/joseph-al-zehlaoui
# Generated: 2026-08-15T03:58:42.148Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/joseph-al-zehlaoui"
name: "Joseph (Al-Zehlaoui)"
slug: "joseph-al-zehlaoui"
description: "Joseph Al-Zehlaoui is a defrocked former bishop of the Greek Orthodox Patriarchate of Antioch and was the Metropolitan of the Antiochian Orthodox Christian Archdiocese of North America from July 3, 2014, until his retirement on September 17, 2022, and subsequent defrocking."
tagline: "Syrian-American Antiochian Orthodox metropolitan"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Metropolitan_Joseph_meets_with_Mike_Pompeo.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
birthDate: "1950-11-02"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
scores:
  popularity:           41.39
  momentum:             0
  historical:           4.8198
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     30
  profileCompleteness:  40
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
sources:
  - url: "https://arz.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%AC%D9%88%D8%B2%D9%8A%D9%81_%D8%A7%D9%84%D8%B2%D8%AD%D9%84%D8%A7%D9%88%D9%89"
    title: "جوزيف الزحلاوى"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joseph_Al-Zehlaoui"
    title: "Joseph Al-Zehlaoui"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joseph_Al-Zehlaoui"
    title: "Joseph Al-Zehlaoui"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://pl.wikipedia.org/wiki/J%C3%B3zef_(az-Zahlawi)"
    title: "Józef (az-Zahlawi)"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ru.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%98%D0%BE%D1%81%D0%B8%D1%84_(%D0%B0%D0%B7-%D0%97%D0%B5%D1%85%D0%BB%D0%B0%D1%83%D0%B8)"
    title: "Иосиф (аз-Зехлауи)"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q17393521"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump