He was born in Jdeidet Artouz, in Rif Dimashq Governorate, Syria, in 1978. He studied in the Faculty of Electrical Engineering at Damascus University. He obtained a BA in Theology from the University of Athens in 2005, followed by two Master’s degrees in Theology and Greek Literature in 2008. He then pursued a Ph.D. in Greek Literature in 2012.
He was ordained as a deacon and then as a priest in 2007 and served in the Diocese of Europe.
Later, the Holy Antiochian Synod elected him as an auxiliary bishop for the Metropolitan of Europe in 2011. Then, he was elected as the Patriarchal Vicar and Secretary of the Holy Synod in 2013.
He was elected as Metropolitan in 2021.