After completing his elementary education at the Orthodox School in Meedan, Syria, he entered the Minor Seminary at Balamand Monastery, near Tripoli, Lebanon, at the age of fourteen, where he met his lifelong friend, the future Metropolitan Philip (Saliba).
This order was found in 1696 by five monks (including Neophytos Nasri) who left the Balamand Monastery to look for a quite place where to better follow the rule of Saint Basil.
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