Ephrem Yousif Abba Mansoor (born June 18, 1951,

Bakhdida Qaraqosh, also known as Al-Hamdaniya or Bakhdida, is an Assyrian city in Iraq within the Nineveh Governorate, located about 32 km (20 mi) southeast of the city of Mosul and 60 km (37 mi) west of Erbil amid agricultural lands, close ...

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) is a Syriac Catholic cleric and the current

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Abba received his priestly ordination from Emmanuel Daddi, the former Archbishop of Mosul, on June 30, 1978. He was the chancellor of the

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 ...

leadership in the

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and

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. He was elected Archbishop of Baghdad on June 26, 2010, by the Holy Synod of the Syriac Catholic Church.

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consented to the election on March 1, 2011.„Vatikan/Irak: Neue Bischöfe für Bagdad und Mosul“
Radio Vatikan, 1. The

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

Ignatius Joseph III Younan Ignatius Ephrem Joseph III Yonan (or ''Younan'', syr, ܐܓܢܛܝܘܣ ܝܘܣܦ ܬܠܝܬܝܐ ܝܘܢܢ, born November 15, 1944) is the Syriac Catholic Patriarch of Antioch and all the East of the Syriacs for the Syriac Catholic Church since his ele ...

, sponsored his episcopal ordination on April 16 of the same year. His

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were his predecessors, Athanase Matti Shaba Matoka,

Jules Mikhael Al-Jamil Archbishop Jules Mikhael Al-Jamil ( syr, ܝܘܠܝܘܣ ܡܝܟܐܝܠ ܓܡܝܠ, ar, يوليوس ميخائيل الجميل) (November 18, 1938 – December 3, 2012) was the Syriac Catholic titular archbishop of Tagritum and the auxiliary bisho ...

, and the curia Archbishop of the Patriarchate of Antioch, and the emeritus Archbishop of

Mosul Mosul ( ar, الموصل, al-Mawṣil, ku, مووسڵ, translit=Mûsil, Turkish: ''Musul'', syr, ܡܘܨܠ, Māwṣil) is a major city in northern Iraq, serving as the capital of Nineveh Governorate. The city is considered the second large ...

Basile Georges Casmoussa Basile Georges Casmoussa (born 25 October 1938 in Qaraqosh, Iraq) is a Syriac Catholic archbishop. He was Apostolic Visitor of the Syrian Catholics in Western Europe and Archbishop Emeritus of the Syrian Catholic Archeparchy of Mosul, Iraq. Cas ...

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