 In 1962 he founded the magazine "Al-Wahdah - Unity in Faith", the first ecumenical magazine to be published in the Arabic language.He also founded several orphanages and trade schools in Lebanon.He was appointed administrator of the Patriarchal Vicariate of Jerusalem in 1975, in the wake of the Israeli arrest of the Patriarchal Vicar of Jerusalem, Archbishop Hilarion Capucci of the Aleppin Salvatorian order.