François David (October 14, 1870 - October 1, 1939), an ethnic
Assyrian, was the
Chaldean Catholic
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Bishop of
Amadiyah
Amedi or Amadiya ( ku, ئامێدی, Amêdî, ; Syriac: , Amədya), is a town in the Duhok Governorate of Kurdistan Region of Iraq. It is built on a mesa in the broader Great Zab river valley.
Etymology
According to Ali ibn al-Athir, the name ...
in
Iraq.
He was consecrated as bishop by Chaldean Patriarch
Yousef VI Emmanuel II Thomas on August 15, 1910. He became the principal consecrator of French Archbishop
Antonin Drapier of the Latin Rite, who later became the Apostolic Delegate to
French Indochina, and ordained some bishops there. The Chaldean lineage therefore includes a few members of the Latin Rite episcopate in
Vietnam.
External links
Bishop François Daoud (David) †
1870 births
1939 deaths
Iraqi Eastern Catholics
Chaldean bishops
French people of Assyrian descent
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