The Syriac Catholic Archeparchy of Baghdad is a

Syriac Catholic Church The Syriac Catholic Church ( syc, ܥܕܬܐ ܣܘܪܝܝܬܐ ܩܬܘܠܝܩܝܬܐ, ʿĪṯo Suryayṯo Qaṯolīqayṯo, ar, الكنيسة السريانية الكاثوليكية) is an Eastern Catholic Churches, Eastern Catholic Christianity ...

ecclesiastical territory or archeparchy of the

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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 ...

. It is not a

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and is directly exempt to the Syriac Catholic Patriarch of Antioch, though not part of his or any other

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, and in

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depends on the Congregation for the Oriental Churches. The

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is the Sayidat al-Nejat Cathedral, in the

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and national capital 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 Ctesiphon ...

History

The Archeparchy of Baghdad was established on 28 September 1862 on Iraqi territory that had previously been without an episcopal

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or ecclesiastical territory of the Syriac Catholic Church.

Episcopal ordinaries

;''Archeparchs (Archbishops) of Baghdad * Atanasio Raffaele Ciarchi (1872 – ?) * Athanase Ignace Nuri (1894.03.11 – retired 1908), Titular Archbishop of

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of the Syriacs (1908 – death 1946.11.09) * Atanasio Giorgio (Cyrille) Dallal (1912.09.04 – 1926.07.31), later Archeparch (Archbishop) of Mossul of the Syriacs (Iraq) (1926.07.31 – death 1951.12.14) * Atanasio Behnam Kalian (1929.08.06 – death 1949.02.17),

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of Bahtnæ of the Syriacs (1921.02.26 – 1929.08.06), Auxiliary Eparch (Auxiliary Bishop) of the patriarchate

Antioch of the Syriacs The Syriac Catholic Church ( syc, ܥܕܬܐ ܣܘܪܝܝܬܐ ܩܬܘܠܝܩܝܬܐ, ʿĪṯo Suryayṯo Qaṯolīqayṯo, ar, الكنيسة السريانية الكاثوليكية) is an Eastern Catholic Christian jurisdiction originating in t ...

(Lebanon) (1921.02.26 – 1929.08.06), Auxiliary Eparch of

Mardin and Amida of the Syriacs Mardin ( ku, Mêrdîn; ar, ماردين; syr, ܡܪܕܝܢ, Merdīn; hy, Մարդին) is a city in southeastern Turkey. The capital of Mardin Province, it is known for the Artuqid architecture of its old city, and for its strategic location ...

(Turkey) (1921.02.26 – 1929.08.06) * Atanasio Paolo Hindo (1949.08.05 – death 1953.08.14), previously Titular Bishop of

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(1949.01.18 – 1949.08.05) * Athanase Jean Daniel Bakose (1953.12.02 – death 1983.01.12) * Athanase Matti Shaba Matoka (1983.07.15 – 2011.03.01), succeeded as former Titular Bishop of

Dara Syrorum of the Syriacs Dara or Daras ( el, Δάρας, syr, ܕܪܐ) was an important East Roman fortress city in northern Mesopotamia on the border with the Sassanid Empire. Because of its great strategic importance, it featured prominently in the Roman-Persian conf ...

(1979.08.25 – 1983.07.15) & Auxiliary Eparch of

Baghdad of the Syriacs The Syriac Catholic Archeparchy of Baghdad is a Syriac Catholic Church ecclesiastical territory or archeparchy of the Catholic Church in Iraq. It is not a metropolitan see and is directly exempt to the Syriac Catholic Patriarch of Antioch, thou ...

(1979.08.25 – 1983.07.15); later Patriarchal Exarch of

Basra and the Gulf of the Syriacs The Syriac Catholic Patriarchal Exarchate of Basra, Iraq and the Gulf is an exarchate ( Eastern Catholic missionary pre-diocesan jurisdiction) of the Syriac Catholic Church ''sui iuris'' (Antiochian Rite in Syriac language) for southern Iraq and th ...

(Iraq) (1997 – 2001) *

Yousif Abba Ephrem Yousif Abba Mansoor (born June 18, 1951, Bakhdida, Iraq) is a Syriac Catholic cleric and the current archbishop of Baghdad. Life Abba received his priestly ordination from Emmanuel Daddi, the former Archbishop of Mosul, on June 30, ...

(2011.03.01 – present)

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Episcopal ordinaries

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