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| type = Bishop | honorific-prefix = His Grace, The Most Reverend | name = Nicholas James Samra | title = Eparch of Newton | image = Bishop Nicholas Samra.jpg | alt = | caption = Bishop Nicholas delivering a homily during a Memorial Service a Ukrainian Catholic Church in 2008. | church = Melkite Greek Catholic | archdiocese = | diocese = | see = Melkite Greek Catholic Eparchy of Newton | appointed = June 15, 2011 | enthroned = August 23, 2011 | predecessor = Cyril Salim Bustros | successor = | other_post = Apostolic Administrator of Eparchy of Nuestra Señora del Paraíso in Mexico City | ordination = May 10, 1970 | ordained_by = | consecration = July 6, 1989 | consecrated_by = Joseph Elias Tawil, Michel Hakim, and Boutros Raï | rank = | birth_date = {{birth date and age|1944|08|15}} | birth_place = Paterson, New Jersey | death_date = | death_place = | previous_post = Auxiliary Eparch of Newton Titular Bishop of Gerasa }}{{Infobox bishopstyles | name= Nicholas James Samra | dipstyle=
| offstyle=His Grace | relstyle=Eparch | image = Mitre (plain).svg | image_size = 200px }}{{Eastern Christianity}} Nicholas James Samra (born August 15, 1944) is the eparch of the Melkite Catholic Eparchy of Newton in the United States, elected in 2011. He is also Apostolic Administrator of the Melkite Greek Catholic Eparchy of Nuestra Señora del Paraíso in Mexico City since 2015. Bishop Samra has written extensively on the subject of ecumenism and the Eastern Catholic Churches. BiographyEarly life and priesthoodBishop Samra was born in Paterson, New Jersey to George H. Samra and Elizabeth Balady Samra. His grandparents and his father were immigrants to the United States from Aleppo, Syria. He was ordained a priest for the Eparchy of Newton on May 10, 1970 and served as a pastor in Melkite parishes in Los Angeles, Chicago and New Jersey. Bishop Samra earned the B.A. at Saint Anselm College, Goffstown, New Hampshire, and a B.D. from St. John's Seminary in Brighton, Massachusetts. EpiscopateOn April 21, 1989, Pope John Paul II appointed Bishop Samra to Auxiliary Bishop of the Eparchy of Newton and Titular Bishop of Gerasa. Archbishop Joseph Tawil consecrated and installed him on July 6 of that year. Bishop Samra served as Auxiliary Bishop and Protosyncellus until he retired on January 11, 2005 to devote himself to scholarly work.[1] In June 2011, the Synod of the Melkite Greek Catholic Church nominated him as Eparch of Newton to succeed Archbishop Cyril Salim Bustros, and Pope Benedict XVI appointed him to the position on June 15, 2011.[2][3] On Friday, January 16, 2015, he was appointed by Pope Francis to serve also as Apostolic Administrator of the Melkite Greek Catholic Eparchy of Nuestra Señora del Paraíso in Mexico City, following the death of the former eparch, pending the appointment of a permanent successor.[4] Scholarly WorkIn October 2014, Bishop Samra presented "Eastern Catholicism in the Middle East Fifty Years after Orientalium ecclesiarum" at the conference "The Vatican II Decree on the Eastern Catholic Churches, Orientalium ecclesiarum - Fifty Years Later" organized by the Metropolitan Andrey Sheptytsky Institute of Eastern Christian Studies held at the University of Toronto.[5] An active speaker and author, Bishop Samra has written extensively on the subject of ecumenism, Christian leadership and stewardship. He has also published a multi-volume history of the Melkite Church and a book on the legacy of Archbishop Joseph Tawil. Other activitiesBishop Samra is the past president of the Eastern Catholic Association of the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops. See also{{portal bar|Biography|Catholicism|Massachusetts}}{{Div col}}
References1. ^{{cite news |url = http://www.georgiabulletin.org/world/2005/01/13/US-2/ |date = January 13, 2005 |title = Melkite Bishop Nicholas Samra retires |newspaper = The Georgia Bulletin |author = Catholic News Service |deadurl = yes |archiveurl = https://web.archive.org/web/20080906141853/http://www.georgiabulletin.org/world/2005/01/13/US-2/ |archivedate = September 6, 2008 |df = }} 2. ^{{cite news|url=http://www.thebostonpilot.com/article.asp?ID=13484|newspaper=The Boston Pilot|date=June 24, 2011|title=New bishop named for Melkite Catholics|author=Robert M. O'Grady}} 3. ^{{Catholic-hierarchy|bishop|bsamra|Bishop Nicholas James Samra|21 January 2015}} 4. ^{{cite web|url=https://press.vatican.va/content/salastampa/it/bollettino/pubblico/2015/01/16/0041/00088.html|title=Rinunce e nomine, 16.01.2015|language=it|date=January 16, 2015|publisher=Holy See Press Office}} 5. ^https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GHia3p0tuLc External links
Episcopal succession{{s-start}}{{s-rel|ca}}{{succession box|title=Eparch of Newton |before= Cyril Salim Bustros |after= Incumbent |years= 2011-Present | }} {{succession box|title=Auxiliary Eparch of Newton |before= - |after= - |years= 1989-2005 | }} {{s-end}}{{Catholicism}}{{authority control}}{{DEFAULTSORT:Samra, Nicholas}}{{US-EC-bishop-stub}} 7 : American Eastern Catholics|American people of Syrian descent|American Melkite Greek Catholic bishops|1944 births|Living people|Melkite Greek Catholic bishops|Saint Anselm College alumni |
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