sentences:  While in that role he also acted as Superior of the monastery of Deir-esh-Chir in 1929.In late 1929 he left for Rome, where he was the delegate of the Melkite hierarchy in the commission for the preparatory studies for the codification of the Oriental canon law.While in Rome he also assumed the position of professor of canon law at the Pontifical Roman Athenaeum from 1932 until 1936.