Metropolitan Philip (Saliba) (Arabic: فيليب صليبا‎) (born Abdullah Saliba; 10 June 1931 Abou Mizan, Lebanon[1] – 19 March 2014 Fort Lauderdale, Florida[2]) was a Lebanese Orthodox prelate who served as Archbishop of New York, Metropolitan of All North America, and primate of the Antiochian Orthodox Christian Archdiocese of North America.

Saliba was educated at Balamand Orthodox Theological Seminary in Lebanon and at schools in Syria.

[3] On 1 March 1959, Saliba was ordained to the priesthood by Metropolitan Anthony (Bashir) and assigned to the pastorate at St. George Church in Cleveland, Ohio.

[5] In July 1966, the Patriarchal Vicar for the widowed See of New York, Metropolitan Ilyas (Kurban), Archbishop of Tripoli, elevated Saliba to the dignity of archimandrite.

[1] Twenty years after the radical nineteen-sixties, the Jesus People were losing steam and some of them had begun pursuing New Testament Christianity, forming the Evangelical Orthodox Church.