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Chaldean Catholic Diocese Of Aqrā
The Chaldean Catholic Eparchy of Aqra (also spelled Aqrā or Akra) is an Eastern Catholic eparchy (diocese) of the Chaldean Catholic Church (which uses the East Syriac Rite) in northern Iraq. It is a suffragan of the Chaldean Catholic Patriarch of Babylon and has its cathedral, episcopal see in the Iraqi Kurdish city of Aqrah. History The eparchy was established in 1850, on territory split off from the then Chaldean Catholic Eparchy of Amadiyah. It was suppressed and merged back into its mother church on 23 April 1895, when its eparch acceded to the cathedral throne, but was restored to an independent Eparchy on 24 February 1910. Eparchs * Giovanni Elia Mellus, Order of Saint Jerome (O.S.H.) (1864.10.07 – 1890.09.04), later Eparch (Bishop) of Mardin of the Chaldeans (1890.09.04 – death 1908.02.16) * Giovanni Sahhar (1890.09.09 – 1909.06.13), later (during the suppression of the see) Eparch of Amadiyah of the Chaldeans (Iraq) (1895.04.29 – 1909.06.13) * Paul Cheikho ( ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Chaldean Catholic Church
The Chaldean Catholic Church is an Eastern Catholic Churches, Eastern Catholic Catholic particular churches and liturgical rites, particular church (''sui iuris'') in full communion with the Holy See and the rest of the Catholic Church, and is headed by the Chaldean Catholic Patriarchate of Baghdad, Chaldean Patriarchate. Employing in its liturgy the East Syriac Rite in the Syriac dialect of the Aramaic language, it is part of Syriac Christianity. Headquartered in the Cathedral of Our Lady of Sorrows, Baghdad, Baghdad, Iraq, since 1950, it is headed by the Catholicos-Chaldean Catholic Patriarchate of Baghdad, Patriarch Louis Raphaël I Sako. In the late 2010s, it had a membership of 616,639, with a large population in diaspora and its home country of Iraq. The United States Commission on International Religious Freedom reports that, according to the Iraqi Christian Foundation, an agency of the Chaldean Catholic Church, approximately 80% of Iraqi Christians are of that church. I ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
