Chaldean Catholic Church

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Cathedral of Our Lady of Sorrows The Cathedral of our Lady of Sorrows, also called ''Cathedral of Mary Mother of Sorrows'', Chaldean Catholic cathedral located in Baghdad, Iraq, dedicated to Our Lady of Sorrows. Consecrated in 1898, it is the seat of the Chaldean Catholic Patri ...

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Louis Raphaël I Sako Louis Raphaël I Sako ( ar, لويس روفائيل ساكو; born 4 July 1948) is a Chaldean Catholic prelate who has served as Patriarch of Baghdad since 1 February 2013. Pope Francis made him a cardinal on 28 June 2018. Biography Early li ...

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Cathedral of Mary Mother of Sorrows The Cathedral of our Lady of Sorrows, also called ''Cathedral of Mary Mother of Sorrows'', Chaldean Catholic cathedral located in Baghdad, Iraq, dedicated to Our Lady of Sorrows. Consecrated in 1898, it is the seat of the Chaldean Catholic Patriar ...

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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� ...

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Chaldean Patriarchate The Chaldean Catholic Patriarchate of Baghdad, or simply the Chaldean Patriarchate ( la, Patriarchatus Chaldaeorum), is the official title held by the primate of the Chaldean Catholic Church. The patriarchate is based in the Cathedral of Mary Mothe ...

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The Chaldean Catholic Church ( syc, ܥܕܬܐ ܟܠܕܝܬܐ ܩܬܘܠܝܩܝܬܐ, ''ʿīdtha kaldetha qāthuliqetha''; ar, الكنيسة الكلدانية ''al-Kanīsa al-kaldāniyya''; la, Ecclesia Chaldaeorum Catholica, translation=Catholic Church of the Chaldeans) is an

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('' sui juris'') in full communion with the

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. In 2010, it had a membership of 490,371, of whom 310,235 (63.27%) lived in the

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). The United States Commission on International Religious Freedom reports that, according to the Iraqi Christian Foundation, an agency of the Chaldean Catholic Church, approximately 80% of Iraqi Christians are of that church. In its own 2018 Report on Religious Freedom, the