Ain Traz

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Ain Traz is a former seminary of the Melkite Greek Catholic Church , southeast of Beirut, Lebanon .

The property was initially the residence of the El Saad family . Patriarch Agapios II. Matar (1796-1812) founded the Ain Traz seminary in 1811. The Druze plundered the property in 1841, and it was reopened in 1870 by Patriarch Grégoire II. Youssef-Sayour . With the opening of the St. Anna seminary in Jerusalem , the seminary in Ain Traz was only used for official church acts.

In addition to a monastery, the property is the summer residence of the head of the church of the Melkite Patriarchs of Antioch , since 2001 of His Beatitude Gregorios III. Laham . Since 1948 it has been the seat of the Melkite Patriarchal Synod.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ "Melkite Patriarchs Since 1709" , melkite.org, accessed October 2, 2009
  2. ↑ “The Patriarchal See of Antioch - Damascus” ( Memento of August 28, 2008 in the Internet Archive ), melkite.org, accessed on October 2, 2009

Coordinates: 33 ° 44 ′ 6 "  N , 35 ° 34 ′ 50"  E