François David (October 14, 1870 – October 1, 1939) was an ethnic Assyrian who served as the

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Bishop of Amadiyah in

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. He was consecrated as bishop by Chaldean Patriarch

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 ...

on August 15, 1910. He became the principal consecrator of a French Archbishop of the

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, Antonin Drapier, who later became

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, and ordained some bishops there. The Chaldean lineage therefore includes a few members of the Latin episcopate in

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Bishop François Daoud (David) †
1870 births 1939 deaths Iraqi Eastern Catholics Chaldean Catholic bishops French people of Assyrian descent {{ChaldeanCatholic-bishop-stub