A ranar 2 ga Yuli, 1979, a karkashin sunan Ignatius IV, ya zama Orthodox Patriarch na Antakiya, na uku mafi girma a cikin Ikilisiyar Orthodox bayan Ecumenical Patriarchs na Constantinople da Alexandria.A lokacin ziyarar da ya kai gidan zama na patriarch a watan Mayun 2010, Shugaban Rasha Dmitry Medvedev ya ba da kyautar Patriarch na Orthodox na Antakiya na Rasha.A ranar 5 ga Disamba, 2012 ya mutu a asibitin St. George a Lebanon, bayan bugun jini. An ba da rahoton mutuwarsa kuma an buga shi ne kawai ta hanyar kamfanin dillancin labaran Siriya.
Shekara ta 1961