The

Chaldean Catholic The Chaldean Catholic Church is an Eastern Catholic particular church ('' sui iuris'') in full communion with the Holy See and the rest of the Catholic Church, and is headed by the Chaldean Patriarchate. Employing in its liturgy the East Syri ...

Archeparchy of Mosul () is a diocese of the

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 ...

, located in the northern Iraqi city of

Mosul Mosul ( ; , , ; ; ; ) is a major city in northern Iraq, serving as the capital of Nineveh Governorate. It is the second largest city in Iraq overall after the capital Baghdad. Situated on the banks of Tigris, the city encloses the ruins of the ...

. Its followers are ethnic Assyrians and speakers of

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. The

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comprises the city of

. The territory is subdivided in 12 parishes. The diocese of Mosul was elevated to Archeparchy of Mosul on February 14, 1967 by

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. The ordinary was Mar Paulos Faraj Rahho until his death in early 2008. He was succeeded in November 2009 by Archbishop-elect Emil Shimoun Nona, who until his election and ratification had been a professor of anthropology at Babel College and a pastor and vicar general in the eparchy of Alqosh. the

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was

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Francis Assisi Chullikatt, whose

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is the entire state of Iraq. Mosul was the see of the Patriarch of the Chaldean Catholic Church from Mar

Yohannan Hormizd Yohannan VIII Hormizd (often referred to by European missionaries as ''John Hormez'' or ''Hanna Hormizd'') (1760–1838) was the last hereditary patriarch of the Eliya line of the Church of the East and the first patriarch of a united Chaldea ...

to Mar

Yousef VI Emmanuel II Thomas Mar Yousef VI Emmanuel II Thomas (August 8, 1852 - July 21, 1947) was the patriarch of the Chaldean Catholic Church from 1900 until his death in 1947. Life He was born on August 8, 1852, in Alqosh. An ethnic Assyrian, he studied in the Ghazir Se ...

Archbishop

The

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is led by the

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of an archbishop, concurrently the pastor of St. Paul's

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. The cathedral was the target of a bombing on December 7, 2004, leaving the building badly damaged. The bishop's residence was a modern two-story building that housed the archbishopric, which was 10 km away from the cathedral. The bishopric was built and inaugurated in 1995 by the late Mar George Garmo. It was destroyed on August 12, 1995 by five attackers who ransacked the building after forcing everyone to leave and loading the building with dynamite.
Late on February 29, 2008, according to a report given by the

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, Archbishop Rahho was kidnapped from his car; his bodyguards and driver were killed. On 13 March 2008, it was reported that the Archbishop's body had been found buried near Mosul.

Ordinaries

(1778-1818) #

Nicholas I Zaya Mar Nicholas I Zaya (or ''Eshaya'') was the patriarch of the Chaldean Catholic Church from 1839 to 1847. He succeeded Yohannan VIII Hormizd, the last of the Mosul patriarchs who traced their descent from Eliya VI (1558–1591), and his elevatio ...

Joseph Audo Joseph VI Audo (or ''Audu'' or ''Oddo'') (1790–1878) was the Patriarch of the Chaldean Catholic Church from 1847 to 1878. Early life Joseph Audo was born in Alqosh in 1790 and in 1814 he became a monk of the monastery of Rabban Hormizd. He was ...

(1825-1833) #

Eliya Abulyonan Mar Eliya XIV IIIAbulyonan (or ''Abolionan'') (1840 - June 27, 1894) was the patriarch of the Chaldean Catholic Church from 1878 to 1894. Life Eliya Peter Abulyonan was born in 1840 in Mosul to an Assyrian family. He studied three years in the ...

# Audishu V Khayyath #

(1900-1947) #

Yousef VII Ghanima Mar Yousef VII Ghanima (January 29, 1881 – July 8, 1958) was the patriarch of the Chaldean Catholic Church from 1947 until his death in 1958. Life Mar Yousef VII Ghanima was born on January 29, 1881, in Mosul and was ordained a priest on May 1 ...

(1947-1958) #

Paul II Cheikho Mar Paul II Cheikho † (, Arabic: بولس الثاني شيخو) (November 19, 1906 – April 13, 1989) was the patriarch of the Chaldean Catholic Church from 1958 until his death in 1989. Life An ethnic Assyrian, he was born on Novembe ...

(1958-1960) # Emmanuel Daddi † (June 27, 1960 - January 11, 1980 ''deceased'') # Georges F. Garmo † (April 23, 1980 - September 9, 1999 ''deceased'') # Paulos Faraj Rahho † (January 12, 2001 - 2008 ''Killed'' - body found March 13, 2008) # Emil Shimoun Nona (November 13, 2009 - ?) (transferred to Australia and New Zealand after exile) # Najib Mikhael Moussa (December 22, 2018 - )

List of churches

The following is a list of churches under the Archeparchy of Mosul and their locations: *St. Miskenta the Martyr - Al Mayasa *St. Isiah - Ras Al Koor *St. Paul - Hai Al-Majmou'a *Our Mother of Perpetual Help - Dawasa *St. Joseph - Al-Mayda *Church of the Virgin Mary - Al-Dargazliya *St. Ephrem - Mousal Al-Jadida *Sacred Heart -

Tel Keppe Tel Keppe ( ', ', alternatively spelled Tel Kaif, Tilkepe, or Telkef) is a town in northern Iraq. It is located in the Nineveh Governorate, less than 8 mi (13 km) northeast of Mosul.Welcome to Tel Keppe at ChaldeansOnline http://www.cha ...

*St. Addai -

Karamles Karamlesh (, ; also spelled ''Karemlash'', ''Karemles'', ''Karemlish'', etc.) is a town in northern Iraq located less than south east of Mosul. It is surrounded by many hills that along with it made up the historical Assyrian city of Kar-Mulliss ...

Statistics

The following statistics were reported in the year 2004. *Total Catholics: 20,600 *Diocesan Priests: 10 *Religious Priests: 4 *Total Priests: 14 *Catholics per Priest: 1,471 *Permanent Deacons: 1 *Male Religious: 4 *Parishes: 10

References

External links

Kaldu.org
- Eparchy of St. Peter the Apostle Website

{{coord missing, Iraq Chaldean Catholic dioceses

Christianity in Mosul Christian organizations established in 1967