Philip Saliba

Metropolitan Philip (Saliba) (

In March 1966, the Antiochian Archdiocese, meeting in special convention, nominated Saliba to succeed the late Metropolitan Anthony (Bashir) as Archbishop of New York and Metropolitan of all North America.[5] In July 1966, the Patriarchal Vicar for the widowed See of New York, Metropolitan Ilyas (Kurban), Archbishop of Tripoli, elevated Saliba to the dignity of archimandrite.

Saliba was elected for the See of New York by the Holy Synod of the Antiochian Patriarchate on 5 August 1966,

In 1977, the two Antiochian Jurisdictions in North America merged. Metropolitan Philip was chosen to lead them.[1]

Twenty years after the radical nineteen-sixties, the Jesus People were losing steam and some of them had begun pursuing New Testament Christianity, forming the

In 1966, Metropolitan Philip expressed his hope that, within 25 years, i.e., by 1991, the Orthodox jurisdictions in the United States would be united administratively.[7] As of 2022, 56 years later, that vision has yet to be realized as they are still "unfortunately divided by nationalistic barriers."^[8]

Works

• ———— (1979). Allen, Joseph J. (ed.). Out of the depths have I cried: thoughts on incarnational theology in the Eastern Christian experience.
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• ———— (1987). Allen, Joseph J. (ed.). Feed my sheep: the thought and words of Philip Saliba on the occasion of his twentieth year in the episcopacy.
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• ———— (2009). Allen, Joseph J. (ed.). Meeting the incarnate God: from the human depths to the mystery of fidelity.
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• ———— (2009). Allen, Joseph J. (ed.). And He Leads Them: The Mind and Heart of Philip Saliba.
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• Greek Orthodox Patriarchate of Antioch
• Antiochian Greek Christians
• Antiochian Orthodox Christian Archdiocese of North America
• Assembly of Canonical Orthodox Bishops of the United States of America

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