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Archbishop Of Erbil
The Archbishop of Erbil of the Chaldeans (or archepach) is the most senior member of the Catholic clergy in the Chaldean Catholic Archeparchy of Erbil. The current archbishop of Erbil is Bashar Matti Warda. He is well known for his wide-ranging support for the Christian refugees in Iraq, and for promoting inter-religious dialogue and environmental protection in Iraq. Erbil is a Chaldean Rite see. The archdiocese was split from the Chaldean Catholic Archeparchy of Kirkuk on the 7 March 1968. It revives an ancient diocese of the Assyrian Church of the East, which lapsed in the seventeenth century. List of archbishops and apostolic administrators * Archbishop Bashar Matte Warda, C.SS.R. (24 May 2010 – ...) * Bishop Rabban Al-Qas Rabban may refer to: * Glossu Rabban, a character from Frank Herbert's ''Dune'' (1965) * Joseph Rabban (8th century), Jewish merchant People with the given name Rabban: * Ali ibn Sahl Rabban al-Tabari (circa 838–870), Jewish scientist * Rabban ...(a ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Chaldean Catholic Archeparchy Of Erbil
The Chaldean Catholic Archdiocese of Erbil ( la, Archieparchia Arbilensis Chaldaeorum, ar, إيبارشية أربيل الكلدانية) is a Chaldean Catholic diocese with its seat in Erbil, Kurdistan Region. Erected in 1968 with territory taken from the Archeparchy of Kirkuk, it is immediately subject to the Patriarchal See of Babylon. The see of the archbishop is the Cathedral of St. Joseph (Mar Yousif) in Ankawa, a suburb of Erbil. Under Archbishop Bashar Warda, the archdiocese expanded its activity by creating the Catholic University in Erbil and several youth and healthcare agencies. In particular, the Archdiocese took a leading role in the care of Christians displaced from Mosul and the Nineveh Plains after the ISIS invasion of those areas in 2014. During this period, Ankawa and Erbil became the center of Christianity in Iraq The Christians of Iraq are considered to be one of the oldest continuous Christian communities in the world. The vast majority of Iraqi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Chaldean Rite
The East Syriac Rite or East Syrian Rite, also called the Edessan Rite, Assyrian Rite, Persian Rite, Chaldean Rite, Nestorian Rite, Babylonian Rite or Syro-Oriental Rite, is an Eastern Christian liturgical rite that employs the Divine Liturgy of Saints Addai and Mari and the East Syriac dialect as its liturgical language. It is one of two main liturgical rites of Syriac Christianity, the other being the West Syriac Rite (Syro-Antiochene Rite). The East Syriac Rite originated in Edessa, Mesopotamia, and was historically used in the Church of the East, the largest branch of Christianity which operated primarily east of the Roman Empire, with pockets of adherents as far as South India, Central and Inner Asia and strongest in the Sasanian (Persian) Empire. The Church of the East traces its origins to the 1st century when Saint Thomas the Apostle and his disciples, Saint Addai and Saint Mari, brought the faith to ancient Mesopotamia, now modern Iraq, the eastern parts of S ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Chaldean Catholic Archeparchy Of Kirkuk
The Chaldean Catholic Archeparchy of Kirkuk ( ar, ابرشية كركوك الكلدانية) is an archeparchy of the Chaldean Catholic Church in communion with the Pope in Rome. The archeparchy was created in the early years of the nineteenth century. Its present ordinary, Archbishop Yousif Thomas Mirkis, was consecrated in 2014. Background The Chaldean archdiocese of Kirkuk was the successor to the earlier diocese of Karka d'Beth Slokh, the metropolis of the ecclesiastical province of Beth Garmaï (East Syrian Ecclesiastical Province), Beth Garmaï. The region of Beth Garmaï in southern Iraq, bounded by the Lesser Zab and Diyala rivers and centered on the town of Karka d'Beth Slokh (modern Kirkuk), was a metropolitan province of the Assyrian Church of the East, Church of the East between the fifth and fourteenth centuries, whose metropolitans resided first at Shahrgard, then at Karka d'Beth Slokh, later at Shahrzur and finally at Daquqa. The known suffragan dioceses of Bet ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Assyrian Church Of The East
The Assyrian Church of the East,, ar, كنيسة المشرق الآشورية sometimes called Church of the East, officially the Holy Apostolic Catholic Assyrian Church of the East,; ar, كنيسة المشرق الآشورية الرسولية الجاثلقية المقدسة is an Eastern Christian church that follows the traditional Christology and ecclesiology of the historical Church of the East. It belongs to the eastern branch of Syriac Christianity, and employs the Divine Liturgy of Saints Addai and Mari belonging to the East Syriac Rite. Its main liturgical language is Classical Syriac, a dialect of Eastern Aramaic, and the majority of its adherents are ethnic Assyrians. The church also has an archdiocese located in India, known as the Chaldean Syrian Church of India. The Assyrian Church of the East is officially headquartered in the city of Erbil, in northern Iraq; its original area also spread into southeastern Turkey, northeastern Syria and northweste ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Bashar Warda
Bashar Matti Warda ( ar, بشار متي وردة; born 15 June 1969 in Baghdad, Iraq) is a Chaldean Catholic cleric and the current Archbishop of Erbil (in the Kurdistan Region of Iraq). Biography Born in 1969, Warda joined the Saint Peter's Chaldean seminary in Baghdad and was ordained a priest in 1993. In 1995, he joined the Redemptorist order of Flanders in Belgium. After receiving his master's at the Catholic University of Louvain in 1999, he returned to Iraq. Warda was apostolic administrator of the Diocese of Zaku from July 2011 until its merger with the Diocese of Amadiyah in June 2013. In 2009, the Synod of Bishops of the Chaldean Catholic Church elected him Archbishop of the Archeparchy of Erbil. After Pope Benedict XVI gave his consent to this election in 2010 he was consecrated on 3 July of the same year.; On 17 May 2017, he was received by His Royal Highness Charles, Prince of Wales in Clarence House, London. Archbishop Warda is well known for his wide-ran ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Rabban Al-Qas
Rabban may refer to: * Glossu Rabban, a character from Frank Herbert's ''Dune'' (1965) * Joseph Rabban (8th century), Jewish merchant People with the given name Rabban: * Ali ibn Sahl Rabban al-Tabari (circa 838–870), Jewish scientist * Rabban Bar Sauma (circa 1220–1294), Uyghur Christian * Rabban Markos, Patriarch of the Church of the East * Simeon Rabban Ata (13th century), high representative of Syriac Christianity Jewish teachers given the title Rabban, a title traditionally given to the head of the Sanhedrin during Tannaitic times: * Rabban Yochanan ben Zakai * Rabban Gamaliel * Rabban Shimon ben Gamaliel * Rabban Gamaliel II of Yavneh * Rabban Shimon ben Gamaliel II Lectors in the Ancient Church of the East * Rabban Bar Sauma * Rabban Markos Yahballaha III ( 1245–13 November 1317), known in earlier years as Rabban Marcos (or Markos) or Yahballaha V, was Patriarch of the East from 1281 to 1317. As patriarch, Yahballaha headed the Church of the East ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Yacoub Denha Scher
Yaqub ibn Ishaq ibn Ibrahim (Arabic: يَعْقُوب ابْنُ إِسْحَٰق ابْنُ إِبْرَاهِيم, literally: "''Jacob, son of Isaac, son of Abraham''" ar, يَعْقُوب , translit=Yaqub; also later ''Israil'', Arabic: إِسْرَآئِیل 'israaeel'' Classical/Quranic Arabic: إِسْرَآءِیْل 'israaeel'', also known as Jacob, is a prophet in Islam. He is acknowledged as a patriarch of Islam. Muslims believe that he preached the same monotheistic faith as did his forefathers: Abraham ( Ibrahim), Ishmael (Ismail) and Isaac ( Ishaq). Jacob is mentioned sixteen times in the Quran."Jacob", ''Encyclopaedia of Islam'' Vol. XI, p.254. Two further references to Isra'il are believed to be mentions of Jacob. In the majority of these references, Jacob is mentioned alongside fellow Hebrew prophets and patriarchs as an ancient and pious prophet who stayed in the "company of the elect". Muslims hold that Jacob was the son of Isaac and that he preached t ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jacques Ishaq
Archbishop Mar Jacques Ishaq (born February 25, 1938) is a Catholic cleric who formerly served as Curial Bishop of the Patriarchate of Babylon, Iraq, of the Chaldean Catholic Church. He served as locum tenens of the Patriarch of Babylon of the Chaldeans between the retirement of Emmanuel III Delly in December 2012 and the election of Louis Raphaël I Sako in January 2013. Biography Jacques Ishaq was born at Mosul, Kingdom of Iraq on February 25, 1938 and was ordained priest on June 20, 1963. On May 7, 1997, he was appointed Archbishop of Erbil he was consecrated bishop on September 26, 1997, by Patriarch Mar Raphael I Bidawid, Archbishop André Sana, and Bishop Emmanuel Delly. He retired on May 4, 1999. On December 21, 2005, he was appointed Titular Archbishop of Nisibis dei Caldei and Curial Bishop of the Patriarchate of Babylon. Upon the retirement of Patriarch Mar Emmanuel III Delly, he served as ''locum tenens'' of the Patriarchate of Babylon of the Chaldeans until th ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Hanna Markho
Hannah or Hanna may refer to: People, biblical figures, and fictional characters * Hannah (name), a female given name of Hebrew origin * Hanna (Arabic name), a family and a male given name of Christian Arab origin * Hanna (Irish surname), a family name of Irish origin Places United States * Hannah, Georgia * Hanna City, Illinois * Hanna, Indiana * Hanna, Louisiana * Hannah, Michigan * Hanna, Missouri * Hannah, North Dakota * Hanna, Oklahoma * Hannah, South Carolina * Hanna, South Dakota * Hanna, Utah * Hanna, West Virginia * Hanna, Wyoming * Hannah Run, a stream in Ohio Elsewhere * Hanna, Alberta, Canada, a town * Hannah, a small village in Hannah cum Hagnaby, a civil parish in Lincolnshire, England * Hana, Iran, a city in Isfahan Province * Hanna, Lublin Voivodeship, Poland, a village * Haná (German spelling: Hanna), an ethnic region in Moravia, Czech Republic * Hannah Island (Greenland) * Hanna Lake, a lake near Quetta, Pakistan Ships * , a destroyer escort acquired ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Stéphane Babaca
Stéphane is a male French given name an equivalent of Stephen/Steven. Notable people with this given name include: *Stéphane Adam (born 1969), French footballer *Stéphane Agbre Dasse (born 1989), Burkinabé football player * Stéphane Allagnon, French film director and screenwriter * Stéphane Antiga (born 1976), French volleyball player *Stéphane Artano *Stéphane Audran * Stéphane Augé (born 1974), French road racing cyclist *Stéphane Auger (born 1970), Canadian hockey referee *Stéphane Auvray * Stéphane Azambre *Stéphane Bancel (born 1972/1973), French billionaire businessman *Stéphane Beauregard (born 1968), Canadian ice hockey player *Stéphane Belmondo *Stéphane Bergeron *Stéphane Bernadis *Stéphane Besle * Stéphane Biakolo * Stéphane Billette *Stéphane Maurice Bongho-Nouarra (1937–2007), Congolese politician *Stéphane Bonneau *Stéphane Bonnes *Stéphane Bonsergent *Stéphane Borbiconi *Stéphane Boudin *Stéphane Breitwieser *Stéphane Bruey ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Catholic Church In Iraq
There are over 300,000 Catholics living in Iraq, just 0.95% of the total population. The Catholics of Iraq follow several different rites, but most are members of the Chaldean Catholic Church. There are 17 currently active dioceses and eparchies in Iraq. In 2019, the Archbishop of Erbil, in Kuridstan, warned that Catholicism and Christianity in general was in danger of becoming 'extinct' in Iraq due to persistent persecution from militant Islamic groups such as Daesh. Dioceses and Eparchies * Armenian Catholic Archeparchy of Baghdad * Chaldean Catholic Archeparchy of Basra * Chaldean Catholic Archeparchy of Erbil * Chaldean Catholic Archeparchy of Kirkuk-Sulaimaniya * Chaldean Catholic Archeparchy of Mosul * Chaldean Catholic Diocese of Alquoch * Chaldean Catholic Diocese of Aqrā * Chaldean Catholic Eparchy of Amadiyah and Zaku * Chaldean Catholic Archeparchy of Baghdad * Chaldean Catholic Patriarchal See of Babylon * Melkite Greek Catholic Patriarchal Exarchate of Iraq ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Catholic University In Erbil
The Catholic University in Erbil (CUE) is a private non-profit institution of higher education and research located in the Erbil suburb of Ankawa, Kurdistan Region It was founded in December 2015 by the Kurdistan Regional Government Archbishop Bashar Warda of the Chaldean Catholic Church, and provides degrees in the arts and sciences recognized by the Kurdistan Regional Government. Its foundation stone was laid on 20 October 2012. 30,000 square metres of land were made available for the campus. The Italian Episcopal Conference gave 2.3 million euros for the project, and the Holy Spirit University of Kaslik in Lebanon Lebanon ( , ar, لُبْنَان, translit=lubnān, ), officially the Republic of Lebanon () or the Lebanese Republic, is a country in Western Asia. It is located between Syria to Lebanon–Syria border, the north and east and Israel to Blue ... was contacted for help and guidance. CUE welcomes students of all cultures, faiths, and backgrounds to study ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
