The Syriac Catholic Archeparchy of Mosul (or informally Mossul of the Syriacs) is a
Syriac Catholic Church
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ecclesiastical territory or
archeparchy
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in northern
Iraq
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. It is not a
metropolitan see
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and is
immediately exempt to the
Syriac Catholic Patriarch of Antioch
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and the
Roman Congregation for the Oriental Churches, and not part of any
ecclesiastical province
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. Its
cathedral
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is the Syriac Catholic Cathedral in the
episcopal see
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of
Mosul
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.
History
The Archeparchy of Mosul was established in 1790 from territory with no previous Syriac Catholic
ordinary or territory.
Archeparchy of Mossul (Syriac Catholic Church)
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Statistics
, it pastorally served 45,000 Catholic in 15 parishes and 2 missions with 82 priests (56 diocesan, 26 religious), 1 deacon, 36 lay religious (33 brothers, 3 sisters) and 15 seminarians.
Episcopal ordinaries
;''Archeparchs (Archbishops) of Mosul''
* Cyrille Behnam Benni (1862 – 1893.10.12), later Eparch of Mardin and Amida of the Syrians (Turkey) (1893.10.12 – 1897.09.13), Patriarch of Antioch of the Syrians (Lebanon) ( 893.10.121894.05.18 – death 1897.09.13)
* Grégoire Pierre Habra (born Syria) (1901.08.16 – 1924.03.24), later Metropolitan Archbishop of Damascus of the Syrians (Syria) (1924.03.24 – death 1933.03.21)
* Atanasio Giorgio (Cyrille) Dallal (1926.07.31 – death 1951.12.14), previously Archeparch of Baghdad of the Syrians (Iraq) (1912.09.04 – 1926.07.31)
* Jules Georges Kandela (1952.03.07 – 1959.08.23), previously Titular Bishop of Cephas ( 951.04.261951.08.15 – 1952.03.07); later Auxiliary Eparch of the patriarchate Antioch of the Syrians (Lebanon) (1959.08.23 – 1971) & Titular Archbishop
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of Seleucia Pieria
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(1959.08.23 – death 1980.04.15)
* Cyrille Emmanuel Benni (1959.10.23 – death 1999.12.09)
* Basile Georges Casmoussa (1999.09.22 – 2011.03.01), later Bishop of Curia
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of the Syrians (2011.03.01 – ...), Apostolic Visitor
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in Western Europe of the Syrians (2014.01.13 – 2017.06.21), Apostolic Visitor in Australia of the Syrians (2017.06.21 – ...)
* Boutros Moshe (2011.03.01 – ...), no previous prelature.
See also
* List of Catholic dioceses in Iraq
References
Sources and external links
GCatholic, with Google photo - data for all sections
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Syriac Catholic dioceses
Eastern Catholicism in Iraq