Career
Isidore Battikha was on April 11, 1980 ordained priest and after that was named Chaplain of the Aleppinian Basilian. On August 25, 1992, he was appointed auxiliary bishop of the Melkite Patriarchate of Antioch and named titular bishop of Pelusium of Greek Melkites. On 9 February 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, Bachelor and François Abou Mokh, Bachelor of Science.
On 6 September 2010 Pope Benedict XVI accepted Battikha"s resignation, in accordance with the Code of Canons of the Eastern Churches (CCEO), can.
210. The reasons for his resignation are still unknown, and to the Archeparchy of Homs was named Jean-Abdo Arbach in 2012.