SALIBA, PHILIP E

SALIBA, PHILIP E., Archbishop of the Antiochian Archdiocese of North America (1931– ). He served as subdeacon (1945–49) and deacon (1949–59) in the Antiochian Orthodox Church and in 1956 settled in the United States He was priest from 1959–66 and in 1961 became a naturalized United States citizen. In 1966 he was consecrated archbishop of the Antiochian exarchate (q.v.) in North America. He is author of Feed My Sheep: The Thought and Words of Philip Saliba: On the Occasion of His Twentieth Year in the Episcopacy (1987). His episcopacy has been characterized by an increased Arab ethnicity compared to that of his predecessor, Archbishop Antony Bashir (q.v.), due to the emigration of Palestinians to the United States. (See Antiochian Orthodox Christian Archdiocese.)