Mar Sargis Yousip, is the

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 الرسول� ...

's Bishop of

Baghdad Baghdad (; ar, بَغْدَاد , ) is the capital of Iraq and the second-largest city in the Arab world after Cairo. It is located on the Tigris near the ruins of the ancient city of Babylon and the Sassanid Persian capital of Ctesipho ...

Iraq Iraq,; ku, عێراق, translit=Êraq officially the Republic of Iraq, '; ku, کۆماری عێراق, translit=Komarî Êraq is a country in Western Asia. It is bordered by Turkey to Iraq–Turkey border, the north, Iran to Iran–Iraq ...

. Born in 1950 in Baghdad, he was consecrated a bishop at the age of 17 by

Mar Yosip Khnanisho Mār Yōsip Khnanisho ( syr, ܡܪܝ ܝܘܣܦ ܚܢܢܝܫܘܥ), the twelfth Metropolitan or ''Matran'' of Shemsdin from 1918 to 1977. Life Hakkari As it was the custom for an uncle to pass on to the first born nephew the Sacred Episcopal Office, ...

on 2 March 1967 at the Mar Zaia Cathedral in Baghdad. In 2002 the bishop left for the United States and has since been unable to return to his diocese. He currently resides in exile at Modesto, California.

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Sargis Yousip Iraqi Assyrian people Iraqi bishops People from Baghdad Iraqi emigrants to the United States 1950 births Living people 20th-century bishops of the Assyrian Church of the East {{assyrian-stub

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