 From his home in Combermere he lectured and wrote on Byzantine spirituality at various places, among them Fordham University's John XXIII Ecumenical Center in The Bronx and the Patriarchal Major Seminary at Raboue in Antelias, Lebanon.He returned to Lebanon in 1985 to assist the Diocese of Beirut with Archbishop Habib Bacha.In 1987 he assumed interim leadership of the Archdiocese of Paneas in Marjayoun, Lebanon, which had been destroyed by the 1974 − 1991 Lebanese civil war.