His editions cover many more important texts, several of which are of hitherto unpublished authors.

Metropolitan Mor Julius Yeshu Cicek lived with him for three years in Mardin and he remembers: "He was such a spiritual loving man, always praying.

After the end of the persecution of the Armenians and Assyrians in early 20th century, he ordained many number of priests, monks and deacons, and send them to very remote areas as far as 'Bitlis and Van' where the faithful had lost their clergy and forgotten about Christianity.

Dressed as lay people, they baptized so many Syriac and also Armenian Christians who had no more clergy.

Sebastian P Brock recalls a meeting with the Metropolitan: "I met Bishop Philexinos Dolabani once, a few years before he died, and he has always greatly impressed me, both as a man of great holiness and as a tireless scholar in the service of the Syriac Orthodox Church."