Dolabani was a missionary-minded man. After the end of the persecution of the Armenian and Syriac, Assyrians and Chaldeans 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.