[2][6] He carried out missions in Persia and later in Paris, for François Piquet, the French consul in Aleppo.
[7] In 1684, he left Isfahan, traveling via Diyarbekir and Aleppo to Alexandretta, arriving in Marseille in August 1685.
[6] He claimed the same see as another bishop, Timothée Karnûsh, who had also arrived in Rome fleeing persecution of Christians.
[9] He collected a large sum, 46,000 pezzi di otto, by 1694, when he was denounced by local Franciscans and arrested.
Safar had to hand over the money to papal authorities, who spent it on maintaining the Syrian chapel in Rome.