 In October 2014, Bishop Samra presented "Eastern Catholicism in the Middle East Fifty Years after Orientalium ecclesiarum" at the conference "The Vatican II Decree on the Eastern Catholic Churches, Orientalium ecclesiarum - Fifty Years Later" organized by the Metropolitan Andrey Sheptytsky Institute of Eastern Christian Studies held at the University of Toronto.An active speaker and author, Bishop Samra has written extensively on the subject of ecumenism, Christian leadership and stewardship.He has also published a multi-volume history of the Melkite Church and a book on the legacy of Archbishop Joseph Tawil.