Hamilton County OhArchives Biographies.....Dahdah, Tobias 1859 - 
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    Rev. Tobias Dahdah, pastor of the Church of the Atonement, Syrian Maronite
Catholic church at Cincinnati, has had a broad and varied experience during the
forty years of his priesthood. Emerson, the great American writer, has said that
"Society is a troop of thinkers, and the best heads among them take the best
places," an epigram peculiarly applicable to the reverend gentleman whose name
is here recorded. Father Dahdah is a native of far-off Syria, born in Mount
Lebanon, May 1, 1859. The son of parents who had been faithful Christians, he
received his early education in the parochial schools of his native place and
early gave indications of a desire to enter the priesthood. After an extended
course of study at St. Abda Seminary, he was ordained in May, 1881, a pastor in
the diocese of Jerusalem, in Rafidia, near Naplous, Samaria, and for eleven
years was priest of the Catholic church at Rafidia, Syria. For one and one-half
years thereafter he was pastor at Jonieh, Mount Lebanon, and then became
chaplain for the Holy Family Hospital in Nazereth Gallelea the Holy Land, a
charge which he retained for six years. Following this, for seven years he was a
missionary in New Zealand, and then went to the famous city of Beirut, where he
was pastor of the Cathedral for nine months. In 1911 Father Dahdah was sent to
Cincinnati to become first pastor of the Church of the Atonement, this parish
being established July 20, 1911. It is a Syrian Maronite church, the sixty
families, or 250 souls, in the parish being largely countrymen of Father Dahdah
who form the Syrian colony in Cincinnati. Father Dahdah wields a large and
beneficial influence among his people, and has established a wonderful record of
Christian charity, genial characteristics and hard work in the comforting of the
unfortunate and the saving of souls.



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