Taking his place as eparch of the United States is Bishop Nicholas Samra.
In 1993 he was appointed Apostolic Administrator for the diocese and then the bishop on March 29, 1996, and formally ordained as bishop on August 24 that year by Archbishop Lucian Mureșan (assisted by co-consecrators Archbishop Judson Michael Procyk and Bishop Nicholas James Samra).
Nicholas Samra (born August 15, 1944) is the eparch of the Melkite Catholic Eparchy of Newton in the United States, elected in 2011.
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Archbishop Joseph Tawil consecrated and installed him on July 6 of that year.
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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.
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He has also published a multi-volume history of the Melkite Church and a book on the legacy of Archbishop Joseph Tawil.
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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.
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