 Faveyrial moved to the order's Istanbul branch in 1847, two years after he was ordained a priest by the Lazarites.Faveyrial was strongly supportive of the Bulgarian struggle for independence, and renowned as being among the souls of that movement.From 1867 until his death, 26 years later, he served as a professor at the Romanian high school of Bitola (Monastir), a city in west Macedonia, where he taught French and philosophy.