Lebanese Maronite Order

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Maronite Catholic Patriarchate of Antioch and All the East

Founder
Disciples of Saint Maroun

Current primacy
Patriarch Mar Nasrallah Boutros Sfeïr

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Estimation
3 500 000 in world (2005)
which 1 250 000 in Lebanon

Headquarters
originally from Antioch
moved to Bkerké (Mount-Lebanon)

Liturgical Languages
Syriac · Arabic

The Maronites Saints
St. Maroun
Saint Charbel · Saint Rafqa
St. Nimatulah Hardini

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Lebanese Maronite Order
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The Lebanese Maronite Order (known also as Baladites or Valadites), is a monk order among the Levantine Catholic Maronite Church, which from the beginning has been specially a monastic Church. 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).

Its name Baladites comes from the Arabic baladiyah (Arabic: الرهبنة البلدية ), country monks. It is one of the three Lebanese congregations of Saint Anthony the Great monks.

The second order is the Aleppians (or halabiyyah), monks of Aleppo, a city in present Syria, antonym of baladiyah. This order resulted from a split with the Baladites. Pope Clement XIV sanctioned this separation in 1770.

The third Lebanese monks order is that of Saint Isaiah, known as the Lebanese Antonin Order founded on August 15, 1700 by the Patriarch Gabriel Al Blouzani from Blaouza (1704-1705).