Under his leadership the church established a new Coptic centre and the theological college in Coburg in 2000 and, having outgrown it in two years, moved to the former Carmelite friary at Whitefriars Park in Donvale. In 2015 the church built a new CBD apartment tower and religious complex.[7] The complex includes the Coptic Orthodox Church of St Verena and St Bishoy and a campus of St Athanasius College.[8]