Background
Peter Jarweh was born on 9 July 1777 in Aleppo.
Peter Jarweh was born on 9 July 1777 in Aleppo.
He was a relative of Patriarch Ignatius Michael III Jarweh, who took care of his education. He was ordained priest on 12 June 1802 and visited Rome in 1805–1806. On 14 September 1810 he was ordained bishop of Jerusalem.
With this amount he bought a printing press and took it to the Charfet monastery (the patriarchal See) in Lebanon in order to print the Bible and other liturgical texts in Arabic.
In Mosul the Catholic and Orthodox Syrians shared the same church-buildings but each one had their own priests. Having no more to fear from harassment, Peter Jarweh moved the patriarchal See from the Charfet monastery in Lebanon to Aleppo to be closer to his flock.
In 1836 he introduced the Gregorian calendar. In 1841 he changed the monastic profession in a simple embrace of the evangelical counsels and he reorganized the seminary of Charfet.
He died on 16 October 1851 (or on 16 November according to other sources).