Isidore Battikha

Isidore Battikha was ordained priest on April 11, 1980 and after that was named Chaplain of the Aleppinian Basilian.

On February 9, 2006, he was elected by the Synod of Bishops of the Melkite Greek Catholic Church as the successor of Abraham Nehmé as Archbishop of Homs.

The Patriarch of Antioch Maximos V Hakim ordained him to the episcopate on August 25, 1992, and were his co-consecrators Néophytos Edelby, BA and François Abou Mokh, BS.

On September 6, 2010 Pope Benedict XVI accepted Battikha's resignation, in accordance with the Code of Canons of the Eastern Churches (CCEO), can.

[1][2] The reasons for his resignation are still unknown, and to the Archeparchy of Homs was named Jean-Abdo Arbach in 2012.