On Monday, March 9, 2020, following the service of Great Compline in the Monastery of Our Lady of Balamand, His Beatitude John X, Patriarch of Antioch and All the East had a paternal meeting with the family of the Saint John of Damascus Institute of Theology.
The meeting was attended by His Grace Bishop Qais Sadiq, the Reverend Archimandrite Romanos Hannat, Abbot of the Monastery of Our Lady of Balamand, the Reverend Protopresbyter Porfirios Georgi, Dean of the Institute of Theology in Balamand, and the Reverend Archimandrite Maxim Jamal, responsible of the internal affairs at the Institute, as well as all the students of theology. His Beatitude delivered a speech on the importance of being steadfast and rooted in Christ Jesus; he stressed the necessity of love, cooperation and living unity within the Church through fraternal solidarity.
— Source: theology.balamand.edu.lb