DAVID, CLÉMENT-JOSEPH. - Syrian archbishop of Damascus. Born in 1829 at Amadia (Iraq) into the Zebungi family, he studied at Mosul and at the College of Propaganda in Rome. Returning to his homeland, he came again to Rome as an Oriental consultor for the Vatican Council (1879), and died in Rome in 1890.
Specializing in the history and liturgies of the Christian East, D. published many works, almost all printed at the Dominican press in Mosul. Notable among them are: La Pésitta caldea di Mossul (3 vols., 1887–91); Il Breviario siriaco (Fenqita) in 7 vols. (1886–1896); Grammatica Aramaica seu Syriaca philologice expositae, published after his death by Msgr. I. Rahmāni in 1896. D. was also the promoter of the Synod of Šarfe, for which he drafted the text: Synodus Libanensis Syrorum an. 1888 habita.