{{Infobox Christian leader | type = Archbishop | name = Raymond Eid | title = Archeparch of Damascus | native_name = ريمون عيد | native_name_lang = ar | church = Maronite Church | archdiocese = Archeparchy of Damascus | term = 5 June 1999 – 25 September 2005 | predecessor = Antoine Hamid Mourany | successor = Samir Nassar | ordination = 30 May 1957 | consecration = 20 November 1999 | consecrated_by = Nasrallah Boutros Sfeir | birth_date = {{birth date|1930|8|6|df=y}} | birth_place = Mazraat el Daher, Mandatory Lebanese Republic, French Empire | death_date = {{death date and age|2012|6|11|1930|8|6|df=y}} }}
'''Raymond Eid''' (6 August 1930 – 11 June 2012) was the Maronite Catholic Archeparchy of Damascus, Syria.
==Life==
Eid was born in Mazraat el Daher, Lebanon on 6 August 1930. Ordained to the priesthood on 30 May 1957 to the Maronite Catholic Eparchy of Sidon, Eid was elected Archbishop of the Maronite Catholic Archeparchy of Damascus on 5 June 1999 by the Maronite Synod.
Maronite Patriarch of Antioch, Nasrallah Boutros Sfeir, gave him on 20 November of the same year the Episcopal ordination. His co-consecrators were Tanios El Khoury, Eparch of Sidon, and Emile Eid, vice-president of the commission for the codification of the Eastern Churches' law.
He retired on 25 September 2005.<ref>[http://www.gcatholic.org/dioceses/diocese/dama2.htm gcatholic.org]</ref> and in 2006 Pope Benedict XVI accepted his age-related withdrawal.
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==External links== * http://www.catholic-hierarchy.org/bishop/beid.html Raymond Eid
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