Nicolas Antiba

Nicolas Antiba (born 25 December 1945 in Aleppo, Syria) is the current archbishop of the Melkite Greek Catholic Archeparchy of Bosra and Hauran.

Nicolas Antiba professed his initial vows to the Basilian Aleppian Order on 23 March 1964. He pursued philosophical and theological studies at the Pontifical Gregorian University in Rome beginning in 1967, and obtained a licentiate. Antiba was ordained as a priest on 19 September 1971 and spent the next seven years studying Semitic languages at the Pontifical Biblical Institute, culminating in a master's degree in scripture.

Antiba's pastoral assignments began in 1978 in the United States with his appointment as the priest of the Parish of Saint Ann in West Paterson, New Jersey. In 1989, he was elevated to the position of archimandrite with his election as superior general of the Basilian Aleppian Order. In 1995, Antiba reigned his position with the Basilian Aleppian Order and was appointed by the Congregation for the Oriental Churches as its apostolic visitor to the congregation of Basilian Aleppian Sisters. A year later, upon the request of Maximos V Hakim, he moved to the patriarch's seminary of Saint Anne in Rabweh, Lebanon to "provide spiritual leadership and be in charge of the pastoral year".