Nicholas Samra Cleric

Nicholas Samra (born August 15, 1944) is the eparch of the Melkite Catholic Eparchy of Newton in the United States, elected in 2011. He has written extensively on the subject of ecumenism and the Eastern Catholic Churches. 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, which has Mexico City as its headquarters; he will serve in the wake of the death of the former eparch there until a permanent successor can be named, while retaining his duties as Eparch of Newton, in the U.S.