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 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 Litur ...

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 The Assyrian Church of the East (ACOE), sometimes called the Church of the East and officially known as the Holy Apostolic Catholic Assyrian Church of the East, is an Eastern Christianity, Eastern Syriac Christianity, Syriac Christian denomin ...

, 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: * Rabban, a Hebrew title higher than rabbi * Joseph Rabban, 11th century Jewish merchant in India * Glossu Rabban, a character from Frank Herbert's ''Dune'' (1965) * Rabban is the Syriac term for monk. See also * Raban (disamb ...

(apostolic administrator) (2007 – 24 May 2010) * Archbishop Yacoub Denha Scher(12 January 2001 – 8 January 2005) * Archbishop

Jacques Ishaq Archbishop Mar Jacques Ishaq (; 25 February 1938 – 22 June 2023) was an Iraqi Chaldean Catholic hierarch who served as Curial Bishop of the Patriarchate of Babylon. He served as locum tenens of the Patriarch of Babylon of the Chaldeans betwee ...

(7 May 1997 – 4 May 1999) * Archbishop Hanna Markho (5 August 1994 – 23 October 1996) * Archbishop

Stéphane Babaca Stéphane is a French given name an equivalent of Stephen/Steven. The word derives from the Greek word "''στεφάνι''" (stefáni) n (plural στεφάνια), meaning wreath, garland (of flowers), and the verb "στέφω" (stéfo), meaning "t ...

(28 October 1969 – 5 August 1994)

References

External links

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