After that Beirut had at least a century before finding the name of another bishop, Youssef Damascus (as-Sami, 1691). By now the number of Bishops is regular and uninterrupted until today. Among the successive bishops there was a special mention to Abdallah Qara'ali, founder of the OLM, renowned jurist, who played an important role in the Synod of Maronite Bishops of Mount Lebanon in 1736.