Bishop Boulos El-Khoury (1896-1995) whose name before his ordination was Halim Ibn El-Khoury Gerges, was grandson of curate Andraous Ibn Sheikh Hanna El-Khoury Gerges El-Maqdisi. He was from the town of Bataaboura in Koura. Archbishop Boulos El-Khoury climbed up the ecclesiastical rank until taking charge of the diocese of Sidon, Tire, Marjayoun, Hasbaya and Rashaya in the Greek Orthodox community. He was one of the generation of clergy, Christians, and revolutionaries whose religious outlook, or faith, was not confined to worship and preaching, but inseparably linked faith to daily behavior. It linked faith to the defense of freedom and man, and linked worship to truthfulness.

For him, it was as if religion is the strategic dimension of the world. His hard tone and direct speech brought him closer to being an orator than a preacher, an advocate of revolution and of fighting for the right. Archbishop Boulos was one of the few Christian clergy who entered the mosque repeatedly. He stood there and was accepted as a speaker His vision was that it was not permissible to look at people as divided categories. People should be called on above all to live, and thus they must be together, no matter what the circumstances were. It is not necessarily that anyone who disagrees with me must be killed.

He believed that Lebanon is not built on sectarian and feudal grounds, and called for the separation of religion from state.