Diocese of Alquoch, Iraq 🇮🇶 (Chaldean Rite)

Continent: Central and Southwest Asia

Rite: Chaldean

Type: Diocese Diocese

Name: Alquoch / Alquoshen(sis) Chaldæorum (Latin)

Ecclesiastical Province: Baghdad

Neighbouring Dioceses: Mossul–Aqrā (↙), Duhok (↖), Erbil (↘)

Depends on: Dicastery for the Eastern Churches

History

1960.10.24: Established as Diocese of Alquoch / Alquoshen(sis) Chaldæorum (Latin) (from Metropolitan Archdiocese of Baghdad and became suffragan of Babylon)

Present Prelates

Bishop:	vacant
Patriarchal Administrator (2025.06.19 – ...):	Bishop Felix Dawood Al Shabi (51) Bishop of Zakho of the Chaldeans (Iraq)

Ordinaries

Bishops of Alquoch (Chaldean Rite)

Bishop Felix Dawood Al Shabi (51)
(Patriarchal Administrator 2025.06.19 – ...)

Bishop Thabet Habib Yousif Al Mekko
(2022.10.08 – 2025.06.18)

Born:	1976.02.14 (Karemlesh, Iraq)
Ordained Priest:	2008.07.25
Consecrated Bishop:	2021.10.22
Died:	2025.06.18 (Alqosh, Iraq † 49)

Priest of Mossul–Aqrā of the Chaldeans (Iraq) (2008.07.25 – 2021.08.14)

Coadjutor Bishop of Alquoch of the Chaldeans (Iraq) (2021.08.14 – 2022.10.08)

Bishop of Alquoch of the Chaldeans (Iraq) (2022.10.08 – 2025.06.18)

Bishop Mikha Pola Maqdassi (77)
(2001.12.03 – 2022.10.08)

Titular Bishop of Seert of the Chaldeans
Auxiliary Bishop emeritus of Baghdad of the Chaldeans (Iraq)

Born:	1949.03.09 (Alquoch, Iraq)
Ordained Priest:	1973
Consecrated Bishop:	2002.02.01

Priest of Alquoch of the Chaldeans (Iraq) (1973 – 2001.12.03)

Bishop of Alquoch of the Chaldeans (Iraq) (2001.12.03 – 2022.10.08)

Auxiliary Bishop of Baghdad of the Chaldeans (Iraq) (2022.10.08 – 2024.07.18)

Titular Bishop of Seert of the Chaldeans (2022.10.08 – ...)

Bishop Abdul-Ahad Sana
(1961.02.24 – 2001.12.03)

Born:	1922.12.10 (Araden, Iraq)
Ordained Priest:	1947.05.15
Consecrated Bishop:	1961.03.19
Died:	2007.02.28 († 84)

Bishop of Alquoch of the Chaldeans (Iraq) ([1960.12.20] 1961.02.24 – 2001.12.03)

Former Prelates

Coadjutor Bishop: Bishop Thabet Habib Yousif Al Mekko (2021.08.14 – 2022.10.08)

Special Churches

Cathedral: Cathedral of St. George, Alquoch

Mossul–Aqrā (↙), Duhok (↖), Erbil (↘)

Statistics (2022.12.31)

Population: 6,500 Catholics

Pastoral Centres: 7 parishes

Personnel: 9 priests (8 diocesan, 1 religious), 3 deacons, 2 religious (2 brothers), 5 seminarians

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