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Hilarion Capucci (born 2 March 1922) is the retired titular archbishop of Caesarea for the Melkite Greek Catholic Church. He was born in Aleppo, Syria. During his time in office, he was an opponent of Israel, aligning himself with the Palestinians. On 20 July 1947, he was ordained a priest of the Basilian Alepian Order. On 30 July 1965, he was appointed archbishop and consecrated. ==Arrest and imprisonment== On 18 August 1974 he was arrested by Israeli police for smuggling weapons into the West Bank in a Mercedes sedan. He was subsequently convicted by an Israeli court of using his diplomatic status to smuggle arms to the Palestine Liberation Army and sentenced to 12 years in prison.〔(''The rape of Palestine and the struggle for Jerusalem'' ), Lionel I. Casper, Gefen Publishing House Ltd, 2003, ISBN 978-965-229-297-1〕 Maximos V, the patriarch of the Melkite Church, was a vocal critic of Capucci's imprisonment. He was quoted as saying, "Is this Bishop reprehensible if he thought it was his duty to bear arms? If we go back in history we find other bishops who smuggled weapons, gave their lives and committed other illegal actions to save Jews from Nazi occupation. I do not see why a man who is ready to save Arabs should be condemned." Maximos also asserted that Israel had entered East Jerusalem illegally and against United Nations resolutions.〔Felix Corley, "Obituary - Patriarch Maximos," ''The Independent'', 5 July 2001, p. 6.〕 Capucci was among the prisoners whose release was demanded by Palestinian hijackers of the Kfar Yuval hostage crisis in 1975, and of German and Palestinian hijackers of Air France Flight 139 (the Entebbe hostage crisis), in 1976. He was released two years later, in 1978, due to intervention by the Vatican, after having served four years of the 12-years sentence.〔 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Hilarion Capucci」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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