{{short description|Maronite religious order}} {{More footnotes needed|date=July 2024}} {{Use dmy dates|date=December 2021}} {{Infobox organization | image = [[File:Qozhaya01072003.jpg|frameless|centre|Monastery of Qozhaya, Lebanon.]] | caption = Monastery of Qozhaya, Lebanon | formation = {{start date and age|1695|11|10|p=yes|br=yes|df=yes}} | type = Monastic order of pontifical right (for men) | headquarters = Couvent Saint-Antoine, Ghazir, Jouneih, Lebanon | leader_title = Superior General (Abbot) | leader_name = Hadi Mahfouz, OLM | main_organ = | full_name = Lebanese Maronite Order | native_name = Ordo Libanensis Maronitarum | native_name_lang = la | abbreviation = OLM | founder = Abdallah Qaraali, OLM | website = {{URL|olm.org.lb}} | membership = 383 (300 priests) | num_members_year = 2017 }} {{Maronites}} The '''Baladites''', formally known as the '''Lebanese Maronite Order''' ({{Langx|la|Ordo Libanensis Maronitarum}}; abbreviated '''OLM'''), is a monastic order among the Levant-based, Catholic Maronite Church, which from the beginning has been specifically a monastic Church.<ref name=Catholic/> The order was founded in 1694 in the Monastery of Mart Moura, Ehden, Lebanon, by three Maronite young men from Aleppo, Syria, under the patronage of Patriarch Estephan El Douaihy (1670–1704).
The Aleppian monks of Aleppo, a city in present Syria resulted from a split with the Baladites. Pope Clement XIV sanctioned this separation in 1770.<ref name=Catholic>{{Catholic|wstitle=Eastern Monasticism}}</ref>
==See also== * Monastery of Qozhaya * Maronite Religious Institutes (Orders) ** Antonins ** Aleppians ** Kreimists or Lebanese missionaries * Melkite Religious Institutes (Orders) ** Basilian Chouerite Order ** Basilian Salvatorian Order ** Basilian Alepian Order
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==External links== * [https://web.archive.org/web/20160128143503/http://www.omm.org.lb/ ] * [http://www.qozhaya.com/LebaneseM.html History of the Baladites at the official website of the Monastery of Qozhaya] {{Maronite Church}} {{authority control}} Category:Maronite orders and societies Category:Religious organizations established in 1695 Category:1695 establishments in Asia