Mar Paul II Cheikho † ( syr, ܦܘܠܘܣ ܬܪܝܢܐ ܫܝܟܘ,
Arabic
Arabic (, ' ; , ' or ) is a Semitic language spoken primarily across the Arab world.Semitic languages: an international handbook / edited by Stefan Weninger; in collaboration with Geoffrey Khan, Michael P. Streck, Janet C. E.Watson; Walter ...
: بولس الثاني شيخو) (November 19, 1906–April 13, 1989) was the patriarch of the
Chaldean Catholic Church from 1958 until his death in 1989.
Life
An ethni
Chaldean he was born on November 19, 1906 in
Alqosh
Alqosh ( syr, ܐܲܠܩܘܿܫ, Judeo-Aramaic: אלקוש, ar, ألقوش, alternatively spelled Alkosh or Alqush) is a town in the Nineveh Plains of northern Iraq, a sub-district of the Tel Kaif District and is situated 45 km north of the ...
and was ordained a priest on February 16, 1930. On May 4, 1947 he was ordained Bishop of
Akra, Iraq, at the age of 40, by the Archbishop of
Kirkuk Hormisdas Etienne Djibri.
From 1957 until his appointment as
Patriarch of Babylon of the Chaldeans
This is a list of the Chaldean Catholicoi-Patriarchs of Baghdad, formerly Babylon, the leaders of the Chaldean Catholic Church and one of the Patriarchs of the east of the Catholic Church starting from 1553 following the schism of 1552 which ...
in 1958 Paul Cheikho served as bishop of
Aleppo, Syria. He was the Patriarch of the Chaldean Church from 1958 until his death on April 13, 1989. He replaced Patriarch
Yousef VII Ghanima
Mar Yousef VII Ghanima (January 29, 1881 – July 8, 1958) was the patriarch of the Chaldean Catholic Church from 1947 until his death in 1958.
Life
Mar Yousef VII Ghanima was born on January 29, 1881 in Mossul and was ordained a priest on May ...
and was followed by
Raphael I Bidawid
Mar Raphael I Bidawid ( syr, ܪܘܦܐܝܠ ܩܕܡܝܐ ܒܝܬ ܕܘܝܕ, Arabic مار روفائيل الاول بيداويد) (April 17, 1922 – July 7, 2003) was the Patriarch of the Chaldean Catholic Church from 1989–2003. He was also a Syria ...
.
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Iraqi Assyrian people
Iraqi archbishops
Chaldean Catholic Patriarchs of Babylon
Participants in the Second Vatican Council
Iraqi Eastern Catholics
1906 births
1989 deaths
People from Alqosh
20th-century Eastern Catholic archbishops
20th-century people from the Ottoman Empire
Assyrians from the Ottoman Empire
Eastern Catholic bishops in Syria