Ramzi Garmou (born in

Zakho Zakho, also spelled Zaxo (, , , , ) is a city in the Kurdistan Region, at the centre of the Zakho District of the Dohuk Governorate, located a few kilometers from the Ibrahim Khalil border crossing. Zakho is known for its celebrations of Newr ...

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on 5 February 1945), was the Assyro-

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 ...

archbishop of Tehran on the Assyro- Chaldean Catholic Metropolitan Archdiocese of Tehran. Garmou was consecrated a priest on 13 January 1977 and joined the Eparchy of Tehran. On 5 May 1995, he was appointed by Pope

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as co-adjutor bishop of Tehran. His episcopal ordination was on the hands of The Chaldean Patriarch of Babylon

Raphael I Bidawid Mar Raphael I Bidawid (, Arabic مار روفائيل الاول بيداويد) (April 17, 1922 – July 7, 2003) was the Patriarch of the Chaldean Catholic Church from 1989–2003. He was also a Syriac scholar. Life He was born on April 17, ...

aided by Archbishop of Tehran,

Youhannan Semaan Issayi Mar Youhannan Semaan Issayi (1914 -یوحنا سمعان عیسائی) ;1999)) was the Chaldean Catholic Metropolitan Archdiocese of Tehran, Metropolitan Archbishop of Tehran of the Chaldean Catholic Church, Chaldean Catholics from March 16, 19 ...

and by the Archbishop of Urmia Thomas Meram on 25 February 1996. On 7 February 1999, Ramzi Garmou succeeded Youhannan Semaan Issayi as Assyro-Chaldean Archbishop of Tehran upon the latter's death. In 2019, he became Archbishop of Diarbekir (Amida) (Chaldean), Turkey. He lives in Istanbul. On November 10, 2023, Imad Khoshabeh replaced him as Archbishop of Tehran

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