 For a year before that, he had served as a priest in Thessaloniki.In Bitola, Favyerial combined his work as a teacher with his religious duties for the Lazarite order as a local abbot.It was in Istanbul that, between 1858 and 1867, Faveyrial started a collection of books with the purpose of building a library that would help write the history of the Albanians, the Bulgarians, and the Aromanians.