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Yohanna Petros Mouche (born November 23, 1943) is an Iraqi
Syriac Catholic The Syriac Catholic Church is an Eastern Catholic ''sui iuris'' (self-governing) particular church that is in full communion with the Holy See and with the entirety of the Catholic Church. Originating in the Levant, it uses the West Syriac R ...
prelate. He served as the Archbishop 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 ...
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Early life

Yohanna Petros Mouche was born on November 23, 1943, in
Bakhdida Qaraqosh (; (official name), or , also known as al-Ḥamdāniyya or Qara-Qūš; a Turkic placename meaning "Black Bird") is an Assyrian city in the Nineveh Governorate, of Iraq located about southeast of the city of Mosul and west of Erbil a ...
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Nineveh Governorate Nineveh Governorate (; , ) is a governorate in northern Iraq. It has an area of and an estimated population of 2,453,000 people as of 2003. Its largest city and provincial capital is Mosul, which lies across the Tigris river from the ruins of a ...
, Iraq. He was ordained as a priest on June 6, 1968.


Career

Mouche was elected as the Archbishop of Mosul in 2011. In August 2011, he blamed the bombing of the Holy Family Church in
Kirkuk Kirkuk (; ; ; ) is a major city in northern Iraq, serving as the capital of the Kirkuk Governorate. The city is home to a diverse population of Kurds, Iraqi Turkmen, Iraqi Turkmens and Arabs. Kirkuk sits on the ruins of the original Kirkuk Cit ...
on government infighting, concluding that officials were too busy arguing among themselves to keep the country safe. In August 2014, he visited Christian refugees in
Soran Soran may refer to: Places * Soran Emirate, a Kurdish principality * Soran District, a region within the Kurdish Autonomous Region in northern Iraq ** Soran, Iraq, a seat of the district government * Sawran, Syria, a town in Syria near Aleppo Fic ...
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Kurdistan Kurdistan (, ; ), or Greater Kurdistan, is a roughly defined geo- cultural region in West Asia wherein the Kurds form a prominent majority population and the Kurdish culture, languages, and national identity have historically been based. G ...


References

Living people 1943 births People from Bakhdida Iraqi Eastern Catholics Syriac Catholic clergy Iraqi archbishops 20th-century Eastern Catholic archbishops 21st-century Eastern Catholic archbishops {{Iraq-bio-stub