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Lebanese Maronite Order | |
Ordo Libanensis Maronitarum | |
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| Abbreviation | OLM |
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| Formation | 10 November 1695 |
| Founder | Abdallah Qaraali, OLM |
| Type | Monastic order of pontifical right (for men) |
| Headquarters | Couvent Saint-Antoine, Ghazir, Jouneih, Lebanon |
Membership (2017) | 383 (300 priests) |
Superior General (Abbot) | Hadi Mahfouz, OLM |
| Website | olm |
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The Baladites, formally known as the Lebanese Maronite Order (Latin: Ordo Libanensis Maronitarum; abbreviated OLM), is a monastic order among the Levant-based, Catholic Maronite Church, which from the beginning has been specifically a monastic Church.[1] The order was founded in 1694 in the Monastery of Mart Moura, Ehden, Lebanon, by three Maronite young men from Aleppo, Syria, under the patronage of Patriarch Estephan El Douaihy (1670–1704).
The Aleppian monks of Aleppo, a city in present Syria resulted from a split with the Baladites. Pope Clement XIV sanctioned this separation in 1770.[1]
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One or more of the preceding sentences incorporates text from a publication now in the public domain: Herbermann, Charles, ed. (1913). "Eastern Monasticism". Catholic Encyclopedia. New York: Robert Appleton Company.
