# Baladites

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{{short description|Maronite religious order}}
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{{Infobox organization
| image = [[File:Qozhaya01072003.jpg|frameless|centre|[Monastery of Qozhaya](/source/Monastery_of_Qozhaya), Lebanon.]]
| caption = [Monastery of Qozhaya](/source/Monastery_of_Qozhaya), [Lebanon](/source/Lebanon)
| formation = {{start date and age|1695|11|10|p=yes|br=yes|df=yes}}
| type = [Monastic order](/source/Monastic_order) of [pontifical right](/source/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](/source/Levant)-based, Catholic [Maronite Church](/source/Maronite_Church), which from the beginning has been specifically a [monastic](/source/monastic) Church.<ref name=Catholic/> The order was founded in 1694 in the Monastery of [Mart Moura](/source/Saint_Moura), [Ehden](/source/Ehden), Lebanon, by three [Maronite](/source/Maronite) young men from [Aleppo](/source/Aleppo), Syria, under the patronage of [Patriarch](/source/List_of_Maronite_Patriarchs) [Estephan El Douaihy](/source/Estephan_El_Douaihy) (1670–1704).

The [Aleppian](/source/Mariamite_Maronite_Order) monks of [Aleppo](/source/Aleppo), a city in present [Syria](/source/Syria) resulted from a split with the Baladites. [Pope Clement XIV](/source/Pope_Clement_XIV) sanctioned this separation in 1770.<ref name=Catholic>{{Catholic|wstitle=Eastern Monasticism}}</ref>

==See also==
* Monastery of [Qozhaya](/source/Qozhaya)
* Maronite Religious Institutes (Orders)
** [Antonins](/source/Antonin_Maronite_Order)
** [Aleppians](/source/Mariamite_Maronite_Order)
** [Kreimists or Lebanese missionaries](/source/Congregation_of_Maronite_Lebanese_Missionaries)
* Melkite Religious Institutes (Orders)
** [Basilian Chouerite Order](/source/Basilian_Chouerite_Order)
** [Basilian Salvatorian Order](/source/Basilian_Salvatorian_Order)
** [Basilian Alepian Order](/source/Basilian_Alepian_Order)

==References==
{{Reflist}}

==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}}
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Category:Maronite orders and societies
Category:Religious organizations established in 1695
Category:1695 establishments in Asia

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