Yohanna Petros Mouche (born November 23, 1943) is an Iraqi Syriac Catholic Church, Syriac Catholic prelate. He serves as the Archbishop of Mosul.

Early life

Yohanna Petros Mouche was born on November 23, 1943, in Bakhdida, Nineveh Governorate, Iraq. He was ordained as a priest on June 6, 1968.

Career

Mouche was elected as the Archbishop of Mosul in 2011. In August 2011, he blamed the bombing of the Holy Family Church in Kirkuk on government infighting, concluding that officials were too busy arguing among themselves to keep the country safe. In August 2014, he visited Christian refugees in Diana, Iraq, Soran, Kurdistan

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Living people 1943 births People from Bakhdida Iraqi Eastern Catholics Syriac Catholic clergy Iraqi archbishops 20th-century Eastern Catholic archbishops 21st-century Eastern Catholic archbishops {{Iraq-bio-stub