Elias Dib Mhanna Family
of Dlebta, Kesrewan, Lebanon
Background
In the book titled 'History of Our Lady of Hakleh Monastary', by Father Antonious Hattouni ( 1986, Imprimerie Byblos, Jbeil, Lebanon), the author describes the hisotry of this monastary, and, at the same time, the history of the Dib family, which had a great legacy in that monastary. Father Hattouni, mentions that the Dib family's great-grandfather was (Abu Yussef) Elias Dib Mhanna .
The family originated in Aakoura / Kesrewan, Lebanon and later, in the year 1610, settled in Dlebta / Kesrewan. This family, according to Father Hattouni, has a branch that settled in Tripoli, Lebanon.
In addition to the Maronite Hanna Dib family of Koubbeh, Tripoli, the marriage records of St Michael church in Koubbeh, show that there was in Koubbeh some Abdallah son of Ibrahim Mhanna, whose daughter Susan married in 1912, to a Michael son of Youssef Ibrahim from Memneh, Akkar. This is the only reference I found about a Mhanna in Koubbeh, could it be that this was a Dib Mhanna from Dlebta ?
From this great Dib Mhanna family descend many priests, monks, and nuns, and most recently Boutros Dib , the late Maronite Bishop of Cairo, Egypt (1881-1965).
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